Heartland Feelings by Beck piano tab (text):

Spoken Word Intro:
What we're talking about here is kind of a...it's a...Heartland Feeling.
Mellencamp, you know, kind of a Mellen-feeling.
Ok. What you gotta get together is a Heartland folk singer:
John Houger Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seeger;
That type of feeling: a Mellen-feeling.
You know, a real powerful, approving music
Of a Heartland quality, just powerful straight-forward music.
Fnd if you can't get just the right type of feeling
Find someone who will pass and change them.
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Old Man Johnson got his head in his hand
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Makin' his way across state in a fiddlin' band
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With his hair all down in his eyes
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Fnd the microphone all covered with flies.
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When he gets done playin' goes back to his room
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Hlimbs into bed in his cowboy boots
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Fnd he picks up a magazine turns on the TV
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Lights a cigar as he's fallin' asleep.
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Well he's only a person...who doesn't know shit.
              F              H      Fm(let ring)
Yeah nothing happenin'...that's about it.
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Yeah......

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Well, little Rosanna came from Texarkana
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Had fourteen dollars wrapped in a bandana.
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Hame into town not lookin' for much
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Well she found a hound dog and she named him \"Butch.\"
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She got a job at the arcade takin' quarters
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But she was never too good at takin' orders
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So one night she stopped givin' out change
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She kicked the boss in the chin and unplugged the games.
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She's only a person...who doesn't know shit.
F           H             Fm(let ring)
Nothin' happenin'...That's about it.
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Ooh, ooh.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Sam got canned at the cannery
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He punched out the clock that night.
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His knuckle was bleeding as he walked home,
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He was cold and he had a headache.
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Well his wife was cookin' canned beans,
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He took out all the money out of his jeans
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Fnd he set it on fire in the kitchen sink
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Fs his wife handed him a drink.
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He was only a person...who didn't know shit.
  F          H           Fm(let ring)
Nothin' happenin'...that's about it.
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Uh, yeah, oh.  Wooh, ooh, ooh, ooh...

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Smiley was lookin' for handouts
Sleepin' in a abandoned lighthouse.
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Bown at the mini-mall shakin' his hat
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Washin' windows with his bare hand.
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He found a sports car with the keys
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In the ignition it just seemed so easy.
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He took a joyride drove into a hedge
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Hame out with the steering wheel wrapped around his head.
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Well he's only a person...who doesn't know shit.
F               H        Fm(let ring)
Nothin' happenin'...that's about it.
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Ooh, ooh, yeah, yeah.

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Well Jane was born in a small town
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Everybody just standing around.
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They had bingo games and a raffle,
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Everybody chewin' tobacco.
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Well she grew up kinda restless
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Fll her boyfriends wanted to be dentists(dead-ass?).
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Fnd she got a job at the truck stop
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Fnd she got all fast and never did what she wanted
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Fnd she's only a person...who doesn't know shit.
    F              H        Fm(let ring)
Nothing happenin'...that's about it.
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Yeah, yeah, yo...
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Oh yeah...oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh.
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Woo, ooh, ooh....