They Call It The Hill Country(Chords)

	        in waltz time 
 
D    G D      A D 
 
D                               G          D 
Well the hills of cow gap stood rugged and awesome 
D                                                     A 
But you have to have fill dirt when you?re building a road 
D                              G            D 
And the hills of cow gap, they withered the ages 
D                               A         Bm 
Got wiped off the map at twelve dollars a load 

G                                   D 
Well they call it the hill country, I call it beautiful 
A                        D           D7 
I?d call it progress, if it could be saved 
G                              D         Bm 
They call it the hill country, I call it home 
A                                             D 
What will they call it, when it?s leveled and paved
 
 
D      G D       A D 
D                          G       D 
Uncivilized pagans drank untreated water 
D                                        A 
Right out of our river way back in their day 
D                             G                D 
Now those streams bubble with cleaned treated sewage 
D                                    A    Bm 
While they sit in their hot tubs and sip perrier 
 
Repeat chorus 
 
Bridge 
G                             D 
Strip off the hill top, build look-a-like houses 
G                                   A 
Move in some people and turn on the tv 
G                        D 
After the ball game turn on some old movies 
D                               A          Bm 
They?ll smile when they see how it used to be 
 
Repeat chorus x3    (second time acoustic only) 
 
A                                            D 
What will they call it when it?s leveled and paved 
 
D     G  D
	        

Written by Kent Finlay