Tannin Bed Song chords by Shawn Mullins

Verse:
D         C
Maria lays in the tannin bed
 Bm      C   D
And reads the tuesday news
 Bm     C  Bm
She's down there every week at the
 C               D
Same time with the same ol' blues

D          C
She reads the funny papers
Bm  C     D
And then the classifieds

Bm   C       Bm     C
And if she ain't too lseepy there's the
              D
Weather report on the flip side

Bridge:
Bm     C       D
And this kansas life is a hard one
Bm     C    D
For a girl from Miami

Bm     C   Bm    C
You're just staring out at the oil fields
C       D
And that's all that I can see......

Verse:
D             C
Her old man's in the same place
Bm     C    D
Since the company let him go.....

Bm   C      Bm      C
Just sippin the pabst blue ribbon and
C     D
Cussin amoco......

D
Maria drives home
    C
From the tannin bed

Bm
And the black clouds
C        D
Roll across the sky....

Bm     C       Bm     C
She pulls into the trailer park, pops the
 C            D
Trunk and calls the kids outside.....

Chorus:
Bm      C    D
Said there's a twister comin
Bm      C    D
And you haven't got a clue....

Bm     C     Bm      C
I ain't going to sit here in this double
    D
Wide and wait around for you

Bm      C        D
Cause I'm taking the microwave oven
Bm     C      D
And I'm takin the color tv.....

Bm   C   Bm   C
And I'm packin up the chevy
  C            D
With the kids and what's left of me......

Outro:
Bm    C       D
This kansas life is a hard one
Bm     C     D
For a girl from miami
Bm   C    Bm     C
Just staring out at the oil fields...