Something So Feminine About A Mandolin chords by Jimmy Buffett

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

     E   E7  A    E  A    E A    B  A B
e|-----7-9-7--7-----------------|-----------------------------|
B|-7h9----------9-7-------------|-----------------------------|
G|-------------------9-9--------|----9----------9-11-11--9--8-|
D|-----------------------9h11-9-|-11---11-9--11----------11-9-|
A|------------------------------|-----------------------------|
E|------------------------------|-----------------------------|

     E   E7  A    E  F#m   G#m  B E  Esus4      E
e|-----7-9-7--7-----------------|-9-12--12-16-12-14-12-|----9-12-9---------|
B|-7h9----------9-7-------------|----------------------|-12--------12-10-9-|
G|-------------------9-9--------|----------------------|-------------------|
D|-----------------------9h11-9-|----------------------|-------------------|
A|------------------------------|----------------------|-------------------|
E|------------------------------|----------------------|-------------------|

Verse 1:
    E     E7
It was late in the evenin'
    A    E
Just a few of us pickin',
    A    E
But the lady she played
  A    B      A    B
So easy and fine.
    E        E7
And the chords that she strummed
    A     E
Were so tastefully clever,
   F#m     G#m   B E     Esus4  E
They planted this song in my mind.

Chorus 1:
        E      E7    A    E
'Cause there's something so feminine about a mandolin,
  A       E
The way that they feel,
  A       B   A    B
The way that they ring.
    E      E7
Just to see slender fingers,
A     E
Movin' so quickly,
F#m    G#m  B   E     Esus4  E
Made this boy want to sing.

Verse 2:
  E      E7    A    E
And when I get older and I have a daughter,
   A      E     A      B    A    B
I'll teach her to sing, and play her my songs
     E       E7      A   E
And I'll tell her some stories I can barely remember
  F#m      G#m B  E  Esus4  E
And hope that she will sing along.

Verse 3:
E     E7        A    E     (see riff)
Maybe one day she'll take a fancy to pickin',
    A      E
'Cause when that bug bites you,
  A       B   A    B
You live with the string.
    E        E7  A     E
And if she could just strum a few simple measures
F#m       G#m    B   E    Esus4  E
She could make some young man sing.

Chorus 2:
        E      E7    A    E
'Cause there's something so feminine about a mandolin,
  A       E
The way that they feel,
  A       B   A    B
The way that they ring.
     E      E7
And that evening in a pasture,
A       E
Somewhere near Austin.
   F#m   G#m B E     Esus4  E
That mandolin made me sing,
E7 F#m   G#m B A     E
Her mandolin made me sing.

(riff)
e|----12-14-16-14-12--------|
B|-14----------------14--12-|
G|--------------------------|
D|--------------------------|
A|--------------------------|
E|--------------------------|