Gulf Moon chords by Kenny Chesney

Tuning: Half-Step Down (D# G# C# F# A# D#)

Key: G

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G D/F# Em C C D G

Verse:
G         D/F#
A corner dive down on the square
      Em         C
Where the windows hang with a neon flare
        D
Regulars shoot horse and pool
      G
While the barmaid wishes the place half full
             D/F#
She works the jar with a discount flirt
  Em      C
A faded Houston Oilers shirt
            D
While an old crow sings down on the stage
G             D/F#
Thumbing the chords on a crinkled page
  Em           C
He plays his Zevon tune
D

Beneath a gulf moon

Instrumental:
G D/F# Em C C D G

Verse:
G        D/F#
Take a walk down along the wall
     Em        C
You'll go right on past the carnival
           D
Hand in hand with the keeper kind
G
The kind that ties to the ties that bind
          D/F#
Don't care for the carnie man
    Em         C
Or the fortune teller that reads your hand
            D
You just beeline for a bungalow
      G
Where the curtains flutter
  D/F#
And candles glow
        Em   C
In the heart of June
D         G
Beneath a gulf moon

Chorus:
D         G
And here I'm on a midnight porch
C
Looking up at a butane torch
D          G
That hangs behind a black expanse
   C         Em
Where stars flicker and planets dance
     D        G
And it's probably time I pack it in
    C
With a glass half-full of Jameson
     Em
Well I was born to croon
     C
I might as well
D
Beneath a gulf moon

Instrumental:
G D/F# Em C C D G

Verse:
G
Down by the jetty
    D/F#
Near the Balinese Pier
   Em             C
The curmudgeons drink the yellow belly beer
             D
And they bitch about the price of gas
     G
And the fish that they can't seem to catch
               D/F#
They blame it on the islands way down south
     Em       C
From the bayou marsh and the delta mouth
                 D
Where the choppers roll and the tankers come
   G         D/F#
In a midnight daze for the oil drum
   Em          C
They can't leave too soon
D
Beneath a gulf moon