Earls Dead Cadillac For Sale chords by Jimmy Buffett

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)



Verse 1:
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Earl’s dead- Cadillac for sale
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An Eldorado sits out on the Tamiami Trail
F      C     G        Am
Sign on the windshield tells the whole tale
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Earl’s dead- Cadillac for sale

     G
He was a  circus man when they first met
    F          C
He was fired from a cannon into a net
  G
The money was good he always hit the bullseye
F                  C
Savin’ for the car one day he would buy

Verse 2:
  G
No he wasn’t thinking of some average ride
 F        C
A Human Cannonball has a lot pride
     G
If you’re gonna live large you need a high dramatic
F                C
Eldorado Biarritz for this wild acrobatic

F       C G        C
And Earl’s is red with shark-like fins
  F    C         G     C
And that is where this little love tale begins
F       C   G       Am
The rear view mirror puts it all in scale
F   C   G      C
Earl’s dead- Cadillac for sale

Verse 3:
      G
She was an Everglades Girl partly Seminole
   F            C
With an urge for going and a wondering soul
         G
With a name like Moonvine she knew she’d never stay
F               C
But that handsome human bullet stole her heart away

    G
It was Saturday night after the midnight show
    F                 C
She was staring at the car when he said, “hello.”
    G
Didn’t take too much to move her off the reservation
F                      C
Just a good looking boy with the right trans-portation

Verse 4:
F        C  G         C
And now Earl is Wed, Moonvine’s got her veil
F        C        G    C
Their tow’n that cannon down the Tamiami trail
F      C    G     Am
He’s got the talent, she’s got brains
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Earl and Moonvine- left the land of sugarcane

    Am
So they drove down to Panama and back up to Maine
  C
Had so much fun, hell, they did it again
     Am
Crossing  cities off the map as they shot down the road
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Knowing  tow’n a cannon things could ex - plode

Verse 5:
   Am
Now a Cadillac was always an Elvis thing
C
Polished chrome and gold it was the birth of bling
   Am
They came with personality, they made you a star
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God may have made the earth,
          B  G
but Man made that c - ar

  G
Now all the way back to the time of James Dean
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Car crash songs chewed up heroes and machines
              G
Sick minds, stop signs and uncontrolled swerves
F           C
But Earl and his Caddy could handle killer curves

Verse 6:
  G
So when the big top folded Earl took his last ride
F               C
Moonvine kissed her boy goodbye, his exit had arrived
                  G
She shot his ashes ‘cross the gulf from that ancient rusty gun
F              C
Nomads know when the show is done

F     C  G       C
And Earl’s dead he’s been air mailed
  F       C       G    C
And that Eldorado waiting on the Tamiami trail
F            C     G       Am
For some shameless enter-tainer to blow in like a gale
F   C   G      C
Earl’s dead – Cadillac for sale

Outro:
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Earl’s Dead Earl’s dead
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