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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