Making Hay Chords

Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

 He neCver went to school beFyond the day he turned sixteenG C

 And I Fcan’t say that I know bCeing that poor really means G F

CHe wouldn’t be mistaken for a Fman of high degrGee Am

 But he was just as Fsmart as anyone could bCe

Verse 2

same as the other verses, without 'intro'-ending)

The first thing I remember till the day I moved away

Up and every morning I don’t believe he missed a day

It was always after sundown when he pulled up in the yard

 He woFuld be on a tractor andC let me drive into the barn G F

=Chorus=

 While the planteGr, acre, baler they Cwere all the same to mFe C

 When I grFow up a farmer is aCll I ever wanna be G C

 I knowG that he was tired butC he would sit and watch me plFay C

 In mFy imagination CI was really makingG hay

I graduated highschool just before I turned eightteen

Two years into college when I had a change of dreams

I’d wear a dank old necktie like those city fellows do

I’d move out in the suburbs like a million other fools

I met a brown haired beauty who was sweet as she could be

The day that we were married he stood right there next to me

I knew that he was tired and he seemed so out of place

He never said a word but it was written on his face

=Chorus=

I couldn’t read the signs when she was falling out of love

The more he turned the lonelier till she’d finally had enough

So I’d pack up my suits and ties and gave them all away

And headed for the country just in time for making hay

No I won’t be mistaken for a man of high degree

‘Cause I was born a farmer and that’s all I’ll ever be

=Chorus=