Ballad Of Spider John chords by Jimmy Buffett

Chords with lyrics

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The Ballad of Spider John
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By Jimmy Buffett

Intro: A minorAm (pulloff w/ index finger)

1)
  A minorAm        C majorC
 "Spider John" is my ...
  D MajorD                      A minorAm
 I'm in between freights and ...
      C majorC        G+G
 if you'd share ....
  A minorAm          C majorC
 I know this may sound ...
    D MajorD                        A minorAm
 but if you wait till the song is ....,
      C majorC      G+G
 you might come to ....
     A minorAm        C majorC      D MajorD       G+G
 Oh, I'm old and bent and Devil sent....
     A minorAm       C majorC         D MajorD
 When I long ago held a ...

(Chorus:)
         E minorEm
   Oh, I was a ...
       A7A7             E minorEm      A7A7
   I was a motor bank stool-...
     E minorEm              A7A7
   I thought I lost my blues, ...
    FF         C majorC        G+G
   I thought I'd found a life ...
             G+G        FF
   But here I sit old Spider ....
   C majorC        A minorAm
   long, tall, ...
        G+G          FF     C majorC    A minorAm
   Yes, old Spider John with a ...

2)
 Then one day I met Diamond Lill....

(repeat chorus)

3)
That is all my story....
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[This song is not published (to my knowledge). This is my own
 chord arrangement and therefore may contain errors for which I
 apologize in advance.]

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