G C G D Caravan of yellow wire, and crawling across the plains G C G C Rolling along in a single file, like a slow moving train G C G D It rumbled down out of the mist, into the early morning light G C G Said they stay 'til the job was finished, if it took them 'til C midnight G C G There were cats & scrapers all caterpillars, packed up by mile D high crane G C G And it looked like monsters from the old b movies, the drive-ins C use to play G C And we'd sang good bye Saturday under the stars G D Wake up little Suzy in my daddy's car G C So many memories got lost and found G C When a piece of history hit the ground G C G The day they tore the last drive-in down G C G Memories thick as the smoke clouds they made, man and machine D became one G C G Boards snapped like toothpicks on their blades, but to us it C sounded like guns G C G Cowboys, soldiers, gangsters, and thieves, James Bond and his D golden girls G C G Well you could sit in your car and never turn the key, and go C half way around the world G C G And it stood like a landmark for forty years, we never thought D we'd live to see G C G It fall it to the ground and then just disappear, like so many C childhood dreams (repeat chorus) bridge: G A C G 1 strum} lot of the drivers had tears in their 1 strum} eyes, 1 C strum} but I don't think it was just the 1 strum} dust G C 1 strum} See I still believe there's a little piece of 1 strum} that G old drive-in left in all of 1 strum} us G C G Nobody moved through what seemed like hours, and slow motion it D came tumbling down G C G We just stood there with a taste of metal in our mouths and a C silence all around D G The day they tore the 1 strum} last drive-in 1 strum} down (repeat chorus)
