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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Miranda Lambert
Vocals
Gene Miller
Background Vocals
Richard Bennett
Acoustic Guitar
John Jarvis
Piano
Glenn Worf
Bass
Michael Rojas
Synthesizer
Jay Joyce
Electric Guitar
Matt Chamberlain
Drums
Carolyn Dawn Johnson
Background Vocals
Randy Scruggs
Electric Guitar
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Glenn Worf
Producer
Frank Liddell
Producer
Chuck Ainlay
Producer
Lyrics
Quarter in a payphone
Drying laundry on the line
Watching sun tea in the window
Pocket watch, tellin' time
Seems like only yesterday, I'd get a blank cassette
Record the country countdown, 'cause I couldn't buy it yet
If we drove all the way to Dallas just to buy an Easter dress
We take a long Rand McNally, stand in the line to pay for gas
God knows that shiftin' gears, ain't what it used to be
I learned to drive that 55, just like a Queen, three on the tree
Hey what ever happened to waitin' your turn
Doing it all by hand
'Cause when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
It all just seems so good the way we had it
Back before everything became automatic
If you had something to say
You'd write it on a piece of paper
Then you put a stamp on it
And they'd get it three days later
Boys would call the girls
And girls would turn them down
Staying married was the only way to work your problems out
Hey what ever happened to waitin' your turn
Doing it all by hand
'Cause when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
It all just seems so good the way we had it
Back before everything became automatic, yeah
Automatic
Let's roll the windows down
Windows with the cranks
Come on, let's take a picture
The kind you gotta shake
Hey what ever happened to waitin' your turn
Doing it all by hand
'Cause when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
It all just seems so good the way we had it
Back before everything became automatic
Automatic
Writer(s): Nicholle Anne Galyon, Miranda Lambert, Natalie Nicole Hemby
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