Waiting For Gilligan chords by Vance Gilbert

Chords with lyrics

Waiting for Gilligan
Chords used:
(Because of tuning all bar chords are played one fret higher)
E MajorE
(shape, technically Eb MajorEb)
G#G#
G minorGm
C minorCm
F minorFm
Bb majorBb
(x24442) or (799877), whichever is more comfortable.

E MajorE
I watch the waves go in and out

Like some uncertain chore
 C minorCm
I understand the habit as they

Break upon the shore
 G#G#
I keep this lonely vigil so

My heart won't break no more
  E MajorE
I'm waiting for Gilligan

E MajorE
The days turn into week

And the weeks turn into years
 C minorCm
And there's some that say I'm crazy

When they see me sitting here
  G#G#
Tell all who would commit me

That I know what commitment is
  E MajorE
I'm waiting for Gilligan

C minorCm
The short wave has been

Broken down for years
   G#G#
But I'm listening with much more
      Bb majorBb
Than just my ears
    Bb majorBb
I'm waiting for Gilligan

E MajorE
The Captain's kids are captains now

And most have come and gone
 C minorCm
On motor boats and sailing ships

With cargoes of their own
  G#G#
My fingers cross with every ship

That makes the trip back home
E MajorE
I'm waiting for Gilligan

E MajorE
If practice makes for perfect

Well, I think I've got it down
 C minorCm
After thirty years of waiting

For a man who's not around
  G#G#
If faith and hope were made of gold

Then I would wear that crown
 E MajorE
I'm waiting for Gilligan


C minorCm
To look at me

The years may seem unkind
    G#G#
But there's just enough of me left
   Bb majorBb
Not to mind
   Bb majorBb
I'm waiting for Gilligan


 C minorCm
I'm no prisoner to my passion
 E MajorE
Any more than some of you
 C minorCm
When I lay down I dream about
 E MajorE
A augmentedA love I know that's true
 C minorCm
I know folks who laid side by side
 G minorGm
For years and never knew
        G#G#
That they were stranded

Now, I want you to tell me
  F minorFm
Somebody tell me
         Bb majorBb
Who's on an island now?

E MajorE
I know he's out there somewhere

And if he don't come home to me
   C minorCm
Then I'll go out to meet him

If they'd bury me at sea
  G#G#
Then we will be together

And I'll no longer be
E MajorE
Waiting for Gilligan

   C minorCm
You tell Ginger, Mrs Howe

And Maryann
 G#G#
I'll always burn the candle
    Bb majorBb
For my man
E MajorE
I'm waiting for Gilligan