Florida Key chords by The New Basement Tapes

Chords with lyrics

It may sound better to play it in G+G with a capo on the fifth fret, but that's entirely up to you.
The riff sounds better without a capo.


C majorC FF C majorC C = Riff (You basically pick out the notes in FF)

C majorC
Miami woman so fine and fair
G+G
I try and try but I can't get anywhere
DmDm          FF
I sail out under the sun
DmDm              FF
Looking for my darling, my only one
DmDm               FF
I sail all day, and when the day is done
C majorC
She's still the one I want to see
G+G           C majorC   Riff(x2)
I must find that Florida Key

C majorC
Collins Avenue, Fifth Street and Main
G+G
I walk up and down but it's all in vain
DmDm          FF
My only darling is gone
DmDm               FF
Took everything and put it out on the lawn
DmDm               FF
And Jim came and got it and he gave it to John
C majorC
It's getting harder and harder to be me
G+G           C majorC   Riff(x2)
I must find that Florida Key

C majorC
Just standing on the curb watching for boats
G+G
While them boys and girls pass by on their big silver goats
DmDm                FF
I'm getting out while the getting is good
DmDm                FF
In my ship of steel or in my ship of wood
DmDm                FF
One more time I'm gonna do just like I should
C majorC
See, this could only happen to me
G+G           C majorC   Riff
I must find that Florida Key

A minorAm
Need a little sunshine in my beer
Bb majorBb
Thinking 'bout eloping
FF
Nothing's locked, never will be
G+G
Everything is open

C majorC
There's only one thing that lurks in my mind
G+G
It's nothing here, nothing I've left behind
           DmDm            FF
There's something up front, something I hope to find
DmDm              FF
I'm gonna set sail again tonight
DmDm                FF
Round the horn and in the clear moonlight
C majorC
Or at least I'm sure it's going to be
G+G           C majorC   Riff x2