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// Mike A. Hall // "If I don't die by Thursday, //
// mhall@moe.coe.uga.edu // I'll be roarin' Friday night." //
// // --J.Buffett //
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Life Is Just A Tire Swing
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[Words and Music by Jimmy Buffett (c) 1974]
Intro: Bm
G A D
I remember the smell of the ...
E F#m Gdim E7 A Bm Cdim A
when we'd have to eat on Easter with ...
G A D
They lived in a big ...
G D G D
and the wind would ...
A D
and I was a tranquil ...
Chorus:
D Bm
Life was just a ...
G D
'Jambalaya' was the ...
G D
Black-berry pickin', ...
G D A
and I never knew a ...
Bm
Life was just a ....
2.
In a few summers my folks packed ....
(then continue)
Bm G F#m Em D
And I've never been west of New ...
G F#m E7 A
My only contact with the outside ...
Bm A
And Elvis would sing and then I'd ...
E7
and who would've figured ...
A E7 F#m7
I'd be rubbin' ...
Bm
Life was just a .....
3.
Then the other morning on some .....
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Chord chart:
F#m - |xx3222| F#m7 - |xx2222| Gdim - |xx2323| E7 - |o2o1oo|
Bm - |xxo432| Cdim - |xx1212| Em7 - |o2oooo| Em - |o22ooo|
[This song is published in the book "The Songs of Jimmy Buffett"
by CPP/Belwin Music Company.]
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