Old Yellow Car Chords

by Dan Seals
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Reformatted, including a few chord corrections and additions to suit the acoustic version of the song. Enjoy...Was this info helpful?
Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: Eb
Capo: 3rd fret
Author avermeulen [a] 217. Last edit on Jun 3, 2020

Chords

C
G
F
Am
Dm

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[Intro]
C G C F Am
 
Dm G C G
 
[Verse 1]
     C               G
She weren't much to look at,
     C               F
She weren't much to ride
         Am        F
She was missing a window
        Dm         G
On her passenger side
     C              G
The floorboard was patched up
      C         F
With paper and tar
       Am         Dm
But I really was something
       G         C    G
In my old yellow car
 
[Verse 2]
     C       G
An American boy
          C             F
With his hands on the wheel
      Am             F
Of a dream that was made of
Dm         G
American steel
            C              G
Though the seats had the smell of
   C        F
A nickel cigar
   Am         Dm
I really was something
       G         C
In my old yellow car
 
[Chorus]
F               G      Am          F
Somewhere in a pile of rubber and steel
           Am        F           Dm    G
There's a rusty old shell of an automobile
        F             G       Am     F
And if engines could run on desire alone
      C          Dm           G          C    G    C   G
That old yellow car would be driving me home
 
[Verse 3]
             C               G
There's the seat where poor Billy
      C          F
Threw up in his date
           Am        F
And where Larry and Sandy
      Dm         G
Could no longer wait
          C            G
There was no road too winding
    C             F
And no where too far
     Am            Dm
With two bucks of gas
        G          C
And my old yellow car
 
[Chorus]
F               G      Am          F
Somewhere in a pile of rubber and steel
           Am        F           Dm    G
There's a rusty old shell of an automobile
        F             G       Am     F
And if engines could run on desire alone
      C          Dm           G          C    G    C   G
That old yellow car would be driving me home
 
[Verse 4]
        C         G
Take a look at me now
          C       F
Throwing money around
    Am          F
I'm paying somebody
    Dm            G
To drive me down town
       C        G
Got a Mercedes Benz
       C       F
With a TV and bar
           Am         Dm
And God I wish I was driving
    G          C  F
My old yellow car
 
[Outro]
      Am           Dm
God I wish I was driving
    G          C    G   F   G
My old yellow car
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1 comment
momusic2
The Dm is the truer chord than the Dmajor, and the F on "shell" in the chorus fits much better than the C in the first chord chart. Good chart!
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