A  A7  B  E  E7  C#m  B  E  B


[Verse 1]

E                  E7           B
In the year of the yellow cab, shadow of the great world war
E             E7            A             B
The third kid grandma had, came into this world
E                    B              G#m           A
On a rolling farm in Maryland when Wilson was the president
F#m                A        B
As summer blew her goodbye through the trees

E                   E7             A              B
A child of changing times, growing up between the wars
E                    E7          C#m                  B
Fords rolled off the lines, And bars all closed their doors
A            B                  G#m          A
I imagine to you back then with snap brim hat and farmer's tan
A7                     B                  B B B
when horses drew their wagons through the fields


[Chorus]

A                  B               G#m             A
Now the fields are off four lanes, and the moons' not just a name
F#m            A                           C#m             E
are you more amazed at how things change, or how they stay the same?
E7         B                                  G#m          A
And Do you sit here on this porch and wonder, how the time flies by
F#m            G#m        A
or does it seem to barely creep along?
F#m          A               E
with seventy five Septembers come and gone


[Interlude]

E  E7  C#m  B  E  A  B  E


[Verse 2]

E                  E7
Were the fields all gold and fawn
B                    B
Was the spring house dark and cool
E             E7
Did the rooster crow at dawn
 A             B
When they got you up for school
E                    B
And would you tell me once again
 G#m           A
The tales of granddad's hired men
F#m                A        B                B B B
And how they drove the old dirt road to town


[Chorus]

      A                  B               G#m             A
Cause now the fields are off four lanes, and the moons' not just a name
F#m            A                           C#m             E
are you more amazed at how things change, or how they stay the same?
E7         B                                  G#m          A
And Do you sit here on this porch and wonder, how the time flies by
F#m            G#m        A
or does it seem to barely creep along?
F#m          A               E
with seventy five Septembers come and gone

E                  E7           B
In the year of the yellow cab
B                              A
Shadow of the great world war