Something So Feminine About A Mandolin chords by Jimmy Buffett

Chords with lyrics

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

     E MajorE   E7E7  A augmentedA    E MajorE  A augmentedA    E MajorE A augmentedA    BB  A augmentedA BB
e|-----7-9-7--7-----------------|-----------------------------|
BB|-7h9----------9-7-------------|-----------------------------|
G+G|-------------------9-9--------|----9----------9-11-11--9--8-|
D MajorD|-----------------------9h11-9-|-11---11-9--11----------11-9-|
A augmentedA|------------------------------|-----------------------------|
E MajorE|------------------------------|-----------------------------|

     E MajorE   E7E7  A augmentedA    E MajorE  F# minorF#m   G# minorG#m  BB E MajorE  Esus4Esus4      E MajorE
e|-----7-9-7--7-----------------|-9-12--12-16-12-14-12-|----9-12-9---------|
BB|-7h9----------9-7-------------|----------------------|-12--------12-10-9-|
G+G|-------------------9-9--------|----------------------|-------------------|
D MajorD|-----------------------9h11-9-|----------------------|-------------------|
A augmentedA|------------------------------|----------------------|-------------------|
E MajorE|------------------------------|----------------------|-------------------|

Verse 1:
    E MajorE     E7E7
It was late in the evenin'
    A augmentedA    E MajorE
Just a few of us pickin',
    A augmentedA    E MajorE
But the lady she played
  A augmentedA    BB      A augmentedA    BB
So easy and fine.
    E MajorE        E7E7
And the chords that she strummed
    A augmentedA     E MajorE
Were so tastefully clever,
   F# minorF#m     G# minorG#m   BB E MajorE     Esus4Esus4  E MajorE
They planted this song in my mind.

Chorus 1:
        E MajorE      E7E7    A augmentedA    E MajorE
'Cause there's something so feminine about a mandolin,
  A augmentedA       E MajorE
The way that they feel,
  A augmentedA       BB   A augmentedA    BB
The way that they ring.
    E MajorE      E7E7
Just to see slender fingers,
A augmentedA     E MajorE
Movin' so quickly,
F# minorF#m    G# minorG#m  BB   E MajorE     Esus4Esus4  E MajorE
Made this boy want to sing.

Verse 2:
  E MajorE      E7E7    A augmentedA    E MajorE
And when I get older and I have a daughter,
   A augmentedA      E MajorE     A augmentedA      BB    A augmentedA    BB
I'll teach her to sing, and play her my songs
     E MajorE       E7E7      A augmentedA   E MajorE
And I'll tell her some stories I can barely remember
  F# minorF#m      G# minorG#m BB  E MajorE  Esus4Esus4  E MajorE
And hope that she will sing along.

Verse 3:
E MajorE     E7E7        A augmentedA    E MajorE     (see riff)
Maybe one day she'll take a fancy to pickin',
    A augmentedA      E MajorE
'Cause when that bug bites you,
  A augmentedA       BB   A augmentedA    BB
You live with the string.
    E MajorE        E7E7  A augmentedA     E MajorE
And if she could just strum a few simple measures
F# minorF#m       G# minorG#m    BB   E MajorE    Esus4Esus4  E MajorE
She could make some young man sing.

Chorus 2:
        E MajorE      E7E7    A augmentedA    E MajorE
'Cause there's something so feminine about a mandolin,
  A augmentedA       E MajorE
The way that they feel,
  A augmentedA       BB   A augmentedA    BB
The way that they ring.
     E MajorE      E7E7
And that evening in a pasture,
A augmentedA       E MajorE
Somewhere near Austin.
   F# minorF#m   G# minorG#m BB E MajorE     Esus4Esus4  E MajorE
That mandolin made me sing,
E7E7 F# minorF#m   G# minorG#m BB A augmentedA     E MajorE
Her mandolin made me sing.

(riff)
e|----12-14-16-14-12--------|
BB|-14----------------14--12-|
G+G|--------------------------|
D MajorD|--------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------|