South American chords by Brian Wilson

Chords with lyrics

Intro:


C majorC   FF
C majorC   FF
C majorC   FF
F   G+G


Verse 1:


   FF            C majorC
Got a letter from a long lost cousin of mine

      FF               C majorC
Who owns a little piece of heaven in the Argentine

    FF             C majorC
It's a different planet, it's a different place

       G+G
He calls it out of this world without traveling to space

Verse 2:

   FF           C majorC
It's not just a lesson in geography

  FF           C majorC
No equation to unravel algebraically

   FF               C majorC
It's written in the wind and on the tropical sea

   G+G
From south of the equator it keeps callin' to me


Chorus:

    C majorC        FF
South American, well you know I would

    C majorC       FF      C majorC
South American, if I only could

      FF      G+G
I wanna be, I wanna be where it's at

    C majorC        FF
South American, I'd go anywhere

    C majorC       FF          C majorC
South American, somebody take me there

      FF      G+G
I wanna be, I wanna be going back

Verse 3:

  FF             C majorC
You only get to heaven if you chase your dreams

    FF            C majorC
Let the paparazzi flash, let the tabloid scream

   FF                 C majorC
I've been around too long to care what anyone says

  G+G
I'm hungry and I'm doing lunch with Cameron Diaz


Chorus:

    C majorC           FF
South American she's got that tango look

    C majorC           FF      C majorC
South American she'll read you like a book

      FF      G+G
I wanna be, I wanna be going back

Bridge:

  A minorAm      G+G       DmDm   C majorC
It rolls off my tongue like a magical phrase

  A minorAm     G+G
A augmentedA simple translation this message conveys

 G+G
Gimme that, gimme that South American girl

    C majorC        FF
A-woah ay oh, a-way oh

    C majorC        FF   C majorC
A-woah ay oh, a-way oh

      FF       G+G
I wanna be, I wanna be where it's at


Chorus:

    C majorC        FF
South American I'm not on some trip

    C majorC        FF       C majorC
South American I just long for a ship

        FF
A augmentedA sailing boat or anything that floats

 G+G
Going back


Outro:

C majorC     FF
Ooooooooh ah South America

C majorC     FF
Ooooooooh ah South America

C majorC     FF         G+G
Ooooooooh ah South American girl

    C majorC        FF          To fade:
South American, well you know I would

    C majorC       FF      C majorC
South American, if I only could

      FF      G+G
I wanna be, I wanna be where it's at