Einstein Was A Surfer chords by Jimmy Buffett

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Einstein Was A augmentedA Surfer
Written by Jimmy Buffett & Mac McAnally
Recorded by Jimmy Buffett 2013
Album: Songs from St. Somewhere
Capo on 3

Intro:
|G+G / D MajorD C majorC |G+G / D MajorD C majorC |G+G / D MajorD C majorC |A minorAm /G / | x 2

Verse:
     G+G     D MajorD  C majorC   G+G        C majorC D MajorD
There's a photo of a ge- nius, standing by the o- cean
    G+G       D MajorD  C majorC     G+G
With a pea coat and a cool hat in 19- 43
   G+G       D MajorD  C majorC     G+G         D MajorD   C majorC
On a beach in Santa Bar- bara, he's looking quite con- tent- ed
  G+G       D MajorD  C majorC    G+G
His world is only mat- ter and energy

G+G        D MajorD  C majorC   G+G      D MajorD  C majorC
Past the Channel Is- lands out into the cos- mos
G+G          D MajorD  C majorC         G+G
There are worlds in mo- tion that only he can see
   G+G        D MajorD   C majorC    G+G         D MajorD   C majorC
He's smiling as he's think- ing, the harbor lights are blink- ing
G+G         D MajorD   C majorC     G+G     D MajorD
He's the smartest cookie ever was, ever will be

Chorus:
E minorEm    D MajorD   C majorC
Einstein was a surfer
   A minorAm   G+G   D MajorD   E minorEm D MajorD
There really is no doubt
      C majorC      G+G
?eCause the universe was his home break
  D MajorD   C majorC   B minorBm A minorAm    G+G
And we're still all paddlin' out

Solo:
|D MajorD C majorC |G+G / D MajorD C majorC |G+G / D MajorD C majorC |A minorAm /G /

Verse:
   G+G        D MajorD   C majorC    G+G        D MajorD   C majorC
On an iceberg off New- found- land, a lyric sits half- froz- en
G+G       D MajorD  C majorC        G+G
Waiting for a com- et to crash into the sea
   G+G          D MajorD   C majorC    G+G      D MajorD  C majorC
It's drifting towards the trop- ics and melting into top- ics
G+G         D MajorD    C majorC            G+G
Fills the sea with answers that have always worked for me
G+G          D MajorD  C majorC   G+G          D MajorD   C majorC
Bass notes from the cha- sm at speeds that we can't fath- om
G+G      D MajorD    C majorC            G+G
Music is the language of the near and distant stars
G+G          D MajorD C majorC   G+G       D MajorD   C majorC
Black holes humming B- flat, heard only by street cats
G+G       D MajorD   C majorC  G+G       D MajorD
Astronauts in orbit and singers in the bars

Chorus:
E minorEm    D MajorD   C majorC
Einstein was a sailor
    A minorAm  G+G   D/F#D/F# E minorEm D MajorD
With a uni- versal song
  C majorC           G+G
His sails were tight, his course was right
  D MajorD   C majorC  B minorBm A minorAm    G+G
So let's just all cruise a- long

Solo:
|D MajorD C majorC | G+G / D MajorD C majorC |G+G /D C majorC |A minorAm /G / |
|G+G / D MajorD C majorC |G+G / D MajorD C majorC |G+G / D MajorD C majorC |A minorAm /G / |

Bridge:
Dm7Dm7  A minorAm   G+G   A minorAm Dm7Dm7   A minorAm     G+G
Order to dis- order, it's the way we all fly
Dm7Dm7  A minorAm    G+G  E minor 7Em7 C majorC    Dm7Dm7   A minorAm   FF
Light speed is all you need to pass the future by

Solo:
|FF |FF |FF |G+G |G+G |G+G |G+G |
|G+G / DC|G+G / DC|G+G / DC|A minorAm /G / |

Verse:
     G+G      D MajorD  C majorC   G+G      D MajorD  C majorC
There's a YouTube of a ge- nius, gliding over liq- uid
G+G          D MajorD   C majorC          G+G
Sultan of the short board in two thousand and ten
  G+G         D MajorD  C majorC G+G        D MajorD  C majorC
He looks like Valen- tin- o moving like neu- tri- nos
    G+G       D MajorD    C majorC   G+G        D MajorD
To the oceans in the heavens, where no wave rider's been

Chorus:
E minorEm    D MajorD   C majorC
Einstein was a surfer
  A minorAm        D MajorD
Who found the perfect break
     C majorC            G+G
Where the strings of time meet the final chime
     D MajorD  C majorC  B minorBm  A minorAm
It's the path all surf- ers take

Outro:
|G+G / D MajorD C majorC |G+G / D MajorD C majorC |G+G / D MajorD C majorC |A minorAm /G / | x times