Calico plains Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[C]

[Verse 1]
[C]Sweet Abilena looks out
at the midwestern sky
Sweet seventeen with a faraway
look in her [F]eyes
She said, "I feel like [Eb]a bird in a cage
[F]But come September
I'm [Eb]flying away"
[C]I said, "I'm gonna miss you" then I
made her promise to write

[Verse 2]
[G]Since we were tall as the
corn in the spring
[F]We shared every secret,
shared every dream
So [G]anxious to grow in
the new summer rain
And [Eb]bloom like a rose on
[F]the calico [C]plains

[Interlude 1]
[C]

[Verse 3]
How could she [C]hear as we laughed
on that warm summer night
The tiny heart of the baby
she carried [F]inside
I stood beside her when
[Eb]September [F]came
Watched [Fsus4]her get marri[F]ed
and [Eb]caught the bouquet
And like [C]those hand me
down dresses she gave me

[Verse 4]
I made her dreams mine
[C]
From [G]a seat by the window
on wings made of steel
[F]I stared at the patchwork over the fields
Where [G]young tears that once fell
like warm summer rain
Were [Eb]turning to snow on the [F]calico [C]plains

[Interlude 2]
[C][Gm][F]
[Eb][Dm][C][Gm]
[F][Eb][Bb][Dm][Bb][F][C]

[Verse 5]
[C]Sweet Abilena looks out at
the midwestern sky
Closer to thirty but farther away in her eyes
[F]She holds her babies like she[Eb]
holds her [F]dreams
Each night she kisses and
[Eb]rocks them to sleep while
[C]She reads the letters she makes

[Interlude 3]
me promise to write
[C]

[Verse 6]
[C]Sweet Abliena looks out at
the [Gm]mid western sky
[C]