WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Jason Aldean - Fly Over States (with Leads) Tabs | Ver. 1
Watch for the Eb in the chorus. I've seen this song tabbed with a Bm or
Bm7 there. No offense to other posters but it's just not accurate.
Even though Eb isn't in the G major scale, it's used here as a
passing tone between D and E. Play along on just the low E string
and you'll see what I mean. It's part of the walk up D,Eb,Em.
That being said, I know a lot of players fear the dreaded Eb
chord but this one is a bit easier. It's actually an Ebaug5 and it's fun
to play once you get the hang of it. It sort of a spread out bar chord.
The index finger bars the 4 bottom strings, 1st fret and the pinky bars bottom
3 strings, 4th fret. Let your index finger ride a touch high and mute the A string.
And let your pinky mute the high E.
The first part of the intro repeats just before the outro/vocal
vamp...the Ebaug5 shows up once here also.
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Cadd9 X32033
Intro
G G
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VERSE 1
G
A couple guys in first class on a flight
Bm
Kinda making small talk killing time,
Flirting with the flight attendants,
Cadd9 Am
30,000 feet above, could be Oklahoma,
G
Just a bunch of square cornfields and wheat farms,
Bm
Man it all looks the same,
Miles and miles of back roads and highways,
Connecting little towns with funny names,
Cadd9 Am D
Who'd want to live down there in the middle of nowhere,
CHORUS
Em C
They've never drove through Indiana,
G
Met the men who plowed that earth,
D Eb
Planted that seed, busted his ass for you and me,
Em C
Or caught a harvest moon in Kansas,
D Cadd9
They'd understand why god made those fly over states
VERSE 2
G
I bet that mile long Santa Fe freight
Bm
train engineer's seen it all
Just like that flatbed cowboy stacking
Cadd9
US steel on a 3-day haul
Am
Road and rails under their feet, Yeah that
D
sounds like a first class seat
CHORUS
Em C
On the plains of Oklahoma
G
with a windshield sunset in your eyes
D Eb
Like a watercolor painted sky
Em C
You'd think heavens doors have opened
D
You'll understand why god made
C
Those fly over states
Lead 1
Em C G D Eb
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Em Cadd9
Take a ride across the badlands
G
Feel that freedom on your face
D Eb
Breathe in all that open space
Em C
Meet a girl from Amarillo
D
You'll understand why god made
C
You might even wanna plant your stakes
G (Intro Lick)
In those fly over states
Outro/vocal vamp
Em C G D
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Em C G D Eb
Have you ever been through Indiana
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Em C G D
On the plains of Oklahoma
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Em C G D
Take a ride.....
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