Einstein Was A Surfer chords by Jimmy Buffett

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

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

Intro:
|G / D C |G / D C |G / D C |Am /G / | x 2

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

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

Chorus:
Em       D     C
Einstein was a surfer
      Am     G     D     Em D
There really is no doubt
            C            G
?eCause the universe was his home break
    D     C     Bm  Am       G
And we're still all paddlin' out

Solo:
|D C |G / D C |G / D C |Am /G /

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

Chorus:
Em       D     C
Einstein was a sailor
       Am   G      D/F# Em D
With a uni- versal song
    C                     G
His sails were tight, his course was right
   D     C    Bm  Am        G
So let's just all cruise a- long

Solo:
|D C | G / D C |G /D C |Am /G / |
|G / D C |G / D C |G / D C |Am /G / |

Bridge:
Dm7   Am      G      Am Dm7      Am         G
Order to dis- order, it's the way we all fly
Dm7   Am       G   Em7 C       Dm7      Am     F
Light speed is all you need to pass the future by

Solo:
|F |F |F |G |G |G |G |
|G / DC|G / DC|G / DC|Am /G / |

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

Chorus:
Em       D     C
Einstein was a surfer
    Am                D
Who found the perfect break
          C                        G
Where the strings of time meet the final chime
         D    C   Bm    Am
It's the path all surf- ers take

Outro:
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