Migration chords by Jimmy Buffett

Chords with lyrics

Difficulty: Novice

Migration
By: Jimmy Buffett
1974

C majorC
Lookin' back at my background
         G7G7
Tryin' to figure out how I ever got here

Some things are still a mystery to me
   C majorC         C7C7
While others are much too clear
     FF
I'm just livin' in the sunshine
   C majorC           A minorAm
Stay contented most of the time
   D7D7
Yeah, listenin' to Murphy, Walker, and Willis
              G+G  G7G7
Sing me their Texas rhymes

Now most of the people who retire in Florida
Are wrinkled and they lean on a crutch
And mobile homes are smotherin' my keys
I hate those bastards so much
I wish a summer squall would blow them
All the way up to fantasy land

A minorAm        D7D7
  Yeah, they're ugly and square, they don't belong here
         FF     G7G7   C majorC
  They looked a lot better as beer cans

Chorus:
        A minorAm
   Yeah and that's why it's still a mystery to me
     G+G
   Why some people live like they do
   A minorAm
   So many nice things happenin' out there
      D7D7         G+G
   They never even seen the clues
       FF
   Oh, but we're doin' fine, we can travel and rhyme
    C majorC           A minorAm
   I know we been doin' our part
      FF          C majorC
   Got a Caribbean soul I can barely control
        G7G7           A minorAm    C majorC
   And some Texas hidden here in my heart

Well, now I might have joined the Merchant Marine
If I hadn't learned how to sing
And on top of all that I got married too early
'Cost me much more than a ring
But now those crazy days are over
Just gotta learn from the wrong things you've done
I came off the rebound, started lookin' around
Figured out it's time to have a little fun

(repeat chorus)

Well, now if I ever live to be an old man
I'm gonna sail down to Martinique
I'm gonna buy me a sweat-stained Bogart suit
And an African parakeet
And then I'll sit him on my shoulder
And open up my trusty old mind
I gonna teach him how to cuss, teach him how to fuss
And pull the cork out of a bottle of wine

(repeat chorus, then)
      FF          C majorC
Yeah, got a Caribbean soul I can barely control
     G7G7           FF    G+G   C majorC  C7C7
And some Texas hidden here in my heart