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@ALBUM: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

@SONG: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

By: Jimmy Buffett

Intro:  G   D   A   G D

D                 G                    

I took off for a weekend last month

        A                        D

Just to try and recall the whole year

                     G                

All of the faces and all of the places

A                           D

Wonderin' where they all disappeared

Bm                  F#m          

I didn't ponder the question too long

      G                         A

I was hungry and went out for a bite

    G                  D            

Ran into a chum with a bottle of rum

       A                    D

and we wound up drinkin' all night

Chorus:

                G                     D

     It's these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes

      A                        D

     Nothing remains quite the same

         G                      D

     With all of our running and all of our cunning

        A                         G         D

     if we couldn't laugh we would all go insane

Reading departure signs in some big airport

Reminds me of the places I've been

Visions of good times that brought so much pleasure

Makes me want to go back again

If it suddenly ended tomorrow

I could somehow adjust to the fall

Good times and riches and son of a bitches

I've seen more than I can recall

Chorus:  

     These changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes

     Nothing remains quite the same

     Through all of the islands and all of the highlands

     If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane

(Repeat Intro chords)

I think about Paris when I'm high on red wine

I wish I could jump on a plane

So many nights I just dream of the ocean

God I wish I was sailin' again

Oh, yesterday's over my shoulder

So I can't look back for too long

There's just too much to see waiting in front of me

And I know that I just can't go wrong

Chorus:

     With these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes

     Nothing remains quite the same

     With all of my running and all of my cunning

     If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane

     If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane

        A                       F     C    G    D   A   D        

     If we weren't all crazy we would go insane

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Chord diagrams:     Bm - |xxo432|   F#m - |xx4222|

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@SONG: Wonder Why We Ever Go Home

Wonder Why We Ever Go Home

By: Jimmy Buffett

1977

Intro:  G  C/G  G

G              C/D           G   C/D

Years grow shorter, not longer

    G           C            G    C/D

The more you've been on your own

G            C/D              G    C/D

Feelin's for movin' grow stronger

       F              C       G

So you wonder why you ever go home

F              C       G     C/G   G

Wonder why you ever go home

People are movin' so quickly

Humor's in need of repair

Same occupations and same obligations

They've really go nothing to share

Like drivin' around with no spare

River gets deeper not shallow

The further you move down the stream

Wonderin' if I can keep her

As I race to catch up with my dreams

How they shine and glitter and gleam

Years grow shorter, not longer

The more you've been on your own

Feelin's for movin' grow stronger

So you wonder why you ever go home

Wonder why you ever go home

You wonder why you ever go home

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Chord diagrams:  C/G - |3x2o13| or |332o1o|

                 C/D - |xxoo1o|  

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@SONG: Banana Republics  

@CHORDS: (mhall@moe.coe.uga.edu) and Kevin J. Shuholm

Banana Republics  

By: Steve Goodman\Jim Rothermel\Steve Burgh  

  

G                            Am          

Down to the Banana Republics, down to the tropical sun  

      D7                      G  

Go the expatriated Americans, hopin' to find some fun  

G                               Am  

Some of them go for the sailing, caught by the lure of the sea  

D7                             G  

Tryin' to find what is ailing, livin' in the land of the free  

G                                    Am  

Some of them are running from lovers, leaving no forward address  

D7  

Some of them are running tons of ganja  

        G  

some are running from the I.R.S

  

Chorus:

     Dm  

     Late at night you will find them

           Am  

     In the cheap hotels and bars

      C                G     C         G        D         G      

     Hustling the senioritas while they dance beneath the stars  

         Dm                             Eb                  D  

     Spending those renegade pesos on a bottle of rum and a lime  

       C                              G  

     Singin' give me some words I can dance to

     C     G     D7      G

     Or a mel - ody that rhymes  

  

First you learn the native customs  

Soon a word of spanish or two  

You know that you cannot trust them

'cause they know they can't trust you  

Expatriated Americans, feelin' so all alone  

Telling themselves the same lies  

That they told themselves back home  

  

(solo) -play - G  Am D  G  - Dm   Am C  G C G  

  

Down to the Banana Republics

Things aren't as warm as they seem  

None of the natives are buying any

Second-hand American dreams

(repeat chorus)  

  

Down to the Banana Republics

Down to the tropical sun

Go the expatriated Americans

Hopin' to find some fun  

(repeat chords and fade)  

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@SONG: Tampico Trauma

@CHORDS: Mike A. Hall (mhall@moe.coe.uga.edu)

Tampico Trauma

By: Jimmy Buffett

1977

   **  At the places notated "5th, 4th, 3rd" stand for an "A" chord

   **  fingering on that particular fret.  Specifically, 5th - |xx555x|

   **  4th - |xx444x|  3rd - |xx333x|  A - |xx222x|

Intro: (run of)  5th  4th  3rd  A  (repeat)

  5th         4th    3rd    A

I must look a mess I must admit

   5th          4th        3rd     A    

But I have been travelling quite a bit

   D            

     South of the Border

   A    

     Where the law and order

        D                          E

     Is kept by Federales who just grin

         5th                4th     3rd     A

     And tell you they just want to be your friend

(repeat run)

I left for Tampico last July

I jumped off that boat I almost died

   D    

     There to greet us

   A                        

     Were pretty senoritas

       D                               E

     I swore that I would not go home then

(repeat run)

All those lovely ladies were my friends

All those sweet chiquitas they don't pretend

(solo)

(repeat run)

That is all I really want to say

I was thrown out of the country yesterday

                D

     (See I was)  drinkin' double

   A                      

     Causin' lots of trouble

              D                                          E

     When the man looked in the window of the bar and he grinned

                   5th                  4th      3rd      A

     And said, "If you come back we just may not be your friend"

(repeat run)

"I don't want to see you 'round here again"

"If you come back next time we may not..."  (Hidy ho' boys!)

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@SONG: Lovely Cruise    

@CHORDS: Mike A. Hall (mhall@moe.coe.uga.edu)

Lovely Cruise

By: Johnathan Baham  

C              F              D

  Drink it up, this one's for you

  C           G      C

  It's been a lovely cruise

C                               F              D

  I'm sorry it's ending, oh it's sad, but it's true

        C             G      C        C7

  Honey,  it's been a lovely cruise

Chorus:

   F                     C

     These moments we're left with

   F                  C        

     May you always remember

   F                   C         G

     These moments are shared by few

   C                                      F            D

     There's wind in our hair and there's water in our shoes

            C             G      C  

     Honey,   it's been a lovely cruise

Spoken: "So let's cruise darlin'"

(long solo) -play- C  F  D  C  G  C     C  F  D  C  G  C  C7

Chorus:

           F                     C  

     Ohhh,   these moments we're left with

   F                  C

     May you always remember

   F                   C         G  

     These moments are shared by few

   C                                         F           D

     And those harbor lights,  lord, they're coming into view

   C                                  G

     We'll bid our farewells much too soon

C                 F               D

  So drink it up,  this one's for you

        C             G      C

  Honey,  it's been a lovely cruise

            C             G      C

  Yeah baby,  it's been a lovely cruise

             C             G        F        C  

  Oh darlin',  it's been a lovely  cruise

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@SONG: Margaritaville

@CHORDS: Mike A. Hall (mhall@moe.coe.uga.edu)

Margaritaville

By: Jimmy Buffett

1977

D    

Nibblin' on sponge cake

Watchin' the sun bake

                                   A

All of those tourists covered with oil

Strummin' my six-string

On my front porch swing

                                         D     D7  

Smell those shrimp, they're beginnin' to boil

Chorus:

   G         A                  D          D7                      

     Wastin' away again in Margaritaville

   G                 A               D    D7

     Searching for my lost shaker of salt

   G             A                    D  A      G

     Some people claim that there's a wo-man to blame

           A     G                D  

     But I know    it's nobody's fault

I don't know the reason

I stayed here all season

Nothin' to show but this brand new tattoo

But it's a real beauty

A Mexican cutie

How it got here I haven't a clue

Chorus:

     Wastin' away again in Margaritaville

     Searchin' for my lost shaker of salt

     Some people claim that there's a woman to blame

     Now I think

     Hell, it could be my fault

Solo: (based on verse chords and chorus)

I blew out my flip-flop

Stepped on a pop-top

Cut my heel had to cruise on back home

But there's booze in the blender

And soon it will render

That frozen concoction that helps me hang on

Chorus:

     Wastin' away again in Margaritaville

     Searching for my lost shaker of salt

     Some people claim that there's a woman to blame

     But I know

     It's my own damned fault

Coda:

        G             A                    D  A      G

Yes and,  some people claim that there's a wo-man to blame

      A     G                    D          

And I know    it's my own damned fault

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@SONG: In The Shelter

@CHORDS: Mike A. Hall (mhall@moe.coe.uga.edu)

In the Shelter

By: Jimmy Buffett

1971

Intro:  A  E    A  E  

E              

    In the shelter

                                              A

    In the mornin' as the sun is brightly gleaming

F#m  

    I heard her crying out,  "What is it all about?

      E                    A               E

    I just don't know, but I can't go back home"

E

    Lonely princess

                                                A

    All the days out on your own are growing empty

F#m

    Nothing is going well  

                                E

    If you could only tell them how you feel  

         A                  E

    But they're too real to understand

Chorus:

   A            

     Too many trite expressions

                                 E

     Ending in forced rejections long ago

   A    

     To many innocent faces

                                E

     In too many far out places somethings wrong

                          B

     Let me tell you that somethings wrong

                    A                       E

     It's been that way so long, and it's a shame

On the street car

To the city where she knows she may lose it all

Riding for just a dime, takin' her own sweet time

And knowing well that this could be her final fall

Past the boutique

To the alley down the river, people pass her by

She sits on a big gray rock, takes off her boots and socks

Not knowin' what she will do next just starts to cry

Chorus:

   A

     Too many wild rejections

                               E

     Endin' in angry questions from her dad

   A

     Too many T.V. dinners

                                      E

     Ah, everyone loves a winner, but she was lost

     A                 E

     No one knows the trials she had

(Repeat first verse, then)

E                             A               E      A  E    A  E

Hell, I just don't know,  but I can't go back home               (fade)

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@SONG: Miss You So Badly

@CHORDS: Mike A. Hall (mhall@moe.coe.uga.edu)

Miss You So Badly

By: Jimmy Buffett/Greg Taylor

1977

C          F              

I guess it all blew up in Missoula

           C      G7    C

There just was no other way

      F                                C       G7     C

After months of goin' crazy, there was nothin' left to say

            Am

But when the dust had finally settled

       D7

And the air had quickly cleared

F                        G7               C     C7

Whoa, things were better off than I had feared

Chorus:

              F                    C

     (And I,)   Miss you so badly,   girl I love you madly

   G                                 C            C7

     Feelin' so sad now since I been gone, gone, gone

   F                         C  

     It gets quite confusin',  it seems that I'm loosin'

   G                                     C

     Track of the long days since I been home

We're stayin' in a Holiday Inn full of surgeons

I guess they meet there once a year

They exchange physician's stories

And get drunk on Tuborg beer

And then they're off to catch a stripper

With their eyes glued to her "G"

But I don't think that I would ever let 'em cut on me

Chorus:

     (And I,) Miss you so badly, girl I love you madly

     I think I've been had though for stayin' so long, long, long

     And I'm, just watchin' the Gong Show, waitin' for Zorro

     Losin' the long days since I been home

(Solo)

I got a head full of feelin' higher

And an ear full of Patsy Cline

There is just no one who can touch her

Hell, I'll hang on every line

Oh, crazy how things happen, it's incredible but true

The longer I'm gone the closer I feel to you

Chorus:

     (And I,)  Miss you so badly,  girl I love you madly

     I'm feelin' so glad just to be headin' home, home, home

     I've been, battlin' motel maids, and chewin' on Rolaids

     Countin' the hours till I get home

     Whoa I been, countin' the hours till I get home

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@SONG: Biloxi

@CHORDS: Mike A. Hall (mhall@moe.coe.uga.edu)

Biloxi

By: J. Winchester

A

Down around Biloxi

                                 D

Pretty girls are swimmin' in the sea

                                  A

They all look like sisters in the ocean

D                                A    

Boy will fill his pale with salty water

        G                     D               A

And the storms will blow from off towards New Orleans

A

The Sun shines on Biloxi

                                       D

The air is filled with vapors from the sea

                                   A

The boy will dig a pool beside the ocean

        D                         A

He sees creatures from his dreams underwater

        G                 D               A

And the Sun will set from off towards New Orleans

(solo)  G   D   A    

        G   D   A

Stars can see Biloxi

Stars can find their faces in the sea

We are walking down beside the ocean

We are splashing naked in the water

And the sky is red from off towards New Orleans

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@SONG: Landfall

@CHORDS: Mike A. Hall (mhall@moe.coe.uga.edu)

Landfall

By: Jimmy Buffett

1977

Intro:  G  A  C  G    G  A  C  G

        G  A  C  G    G  A  C  G

    G               A       C            G  

Now what would they do if I just sailed away

G            A                   C          G

Who the hell really compelled me to leave today

G             A               C          G

Runnin' low on stories of what made it a ball

G               A       C           G

What would they do if I made no landfall

I lived half my life in an eight by five room

Just crusin' to the sound of the big diesel boom

It's not close quarters that would make me snap

It's just dealing with the daily unadulterated crap

Chorus: (see below for notes on "Run")

     "Run"     E       A          G

     Sail away,  for a month at a time

     "Run"     E             A          G

     Sail away,  I've got to restart my mind

                A                  Gb  G

     And you'll find me back at it a - gain

Now I love the smell of fresh snapper fried light

What you say pouilly-fusse to round out the night

The mid-morning watch is the best time to look

Oh, what would they do if I wrote the big book

'Cause I've seen incredible things in my years

Some days were laughter and others were tears

If I had it all to do over again

I'd just get myself drunk and I'd jump right back in

Chorus:

     Sail away, that's the way I survive

     Sail away, that's just no shuck and jive

     But it makes my whole life come alive

Solo: (based on verse and chorus chords)

The wind whistles through the cold riggin' at night

Crazy crowds boogie to the sound and the lights

Bums down in Capo's, he's just havin' a ball

Oh, what would he do on another landfall

What would they do if I made no landfall

Oh, what would they do if I flew to Nepal

What would I do if I met Lucile Ball

I'm tryin' to make a little sense of it all

Just tryin' to make a little sense of it all

(Repeat Intro chords twice and fade)

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"Run" notes:  this notates to play a "run" of the notes (G, Gb, E)

as a lead-in to the E chord of the chorus.  Here's a Tab example:

  e -------------------

  b -------------------

  g --------------1----

  d --------------2----

  a --------------2----

  E --3--2--0----------

      G  Gb E     E (chord)

** also, on the "Gb" note (last line of chorus), I play just the

   note on the E (bass) string to lead-in to the G chord.  As  

   always, listen to the song to get it just right. MAH

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