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Buffett Jimmy - If The Phone Doesnt Ring Its Me guitar chord

Subject: b/buffett_jimmy/if_the_phone_doesnt_ring_its_me.crd

Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 14:02:12 -0400 (EDT)

From: CRichBurch@aol.com

"If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me" by Jimmy Buffett

>From "The Last Mango in Paris" album

Submitted by Richard Burchett

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I wrote the intro-melody part out in tab format.  This part needs to be

played by finger-picking.  The chords above the tab usually give an easy

reference to the proper positioning of the left hand while the individual

notes are played.

Intro-melody:

           (C)                           (Em)           (F)           (repeat

2x)    

E:----------0------------0----------------0---------1-------------------------

---    

B:----------------------------3----------------3-----1---------------0--1--3--

-    

G:-----------------0----------------------------------------2-----2-----------

---    

D:----------------------------------------------------------------------------

------    

A:----------3-----------------------------------------------------------------

-----    

E:-----------------------------------0------------------1---------------------

----    

            (C)                          (Em)             (F)

E:----------0------------0-----------------0---3------5-----------------------

--

B:-----------------------------3----------------------------------------------

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G:-----------------0----------------------------------------------------------

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D:-------------------------------------------------------3--------------------

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A:----------3-----------------------------------------------------------------

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E:-----------------------------------0----------------------------------------

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Verse 1:

                     C               Em             F        C

     There  are  oceans  of  feelings  be-tween  us,

     Am                                     C

     currents  that  take  us  and  sweep  us  away.

     C                      Em                F      C

     That's  why  we  seldom  have  seen  us,

                Am            G              C

     in  the  light  of  a  cold  hard  day.

     Am                                           C

     Lot's  of  new  friends,  with  the  same  old  answers,

     Am                                       G     G7      

     open  your  eyes  you  might  see,

               C                       Em              F                C

     if  our  lives  were  that  simple  we'd  live  in  the  past,

               Am                  G           C  

     if  the  phone  doesn't  ring,  its  me.

Chorus:

               G                                    C

     If  the  phone  doesn't  ring,  you  know  that  it's  me,

               G                                  C

     I'll  be  out  in  the  eye  of  the  storm,

               G                                    C

     if  the  phone  doesn't  ring,  you  know  that  I'll  be,

                 G                                           C

     where  someone  can  make  me  feel  warm.

           C                  Em                  F               C

     It's  too  bad  we  can't  turn  and  live  in  the  past,

               Am                  G            C-(first chord of intro)

     if  the  phone  doesn't  ring,  it's  me.

Intro-melody:  No repeats this time.

Verse 2:

                   C                       Em                   F

               C

     I've  had  good  days  and  bad  days  and  going - half - mad  days,

        Am                                C

     I  try  to  let  go,  but  your  still  on  my mind.

           C                 Em                  F                   C

     I've  lost  all  the  old  ways,  I'm  searching  for  new  ways,

     Am           G               C

     Putting  it  all  on  the  line.

     Am                                          C

     Lots  of  new  friends,  with  the  same  old  problems,

     Am                                       G     G7

     open  your  eyes  you  might  see,

               C                      Em              F                C

     if  our  lives  were  that simple  we'd  live  in  the  past,

                Am                 G            C

     if  the  phone  doesn't  ring,  it's  me.

Repeat chorus.

Intro-melody:  Play the tab part, singing these words over it.  All repeats

this time.

     C    Em        F

     It's  me,  it's  me,

     C    Em        F

     it's  me,  it's  me,

     C    Em        F

     it's  me,  it's  me,

     C    Em        F

     it's  me,  it's  me.

Coda:  (Slowly)

            C                    Em             F                        C

     If  it  takes  all  our  future  we'll  live  through  the  past,

               Am                  G            C   C/F   C

     if  the  phone  doesn't  ring,  it's  me.

That's All.  Once again, this song sounds much better if you finger-pick it.

Also, it's a  nice touch to add a high "g" note to the Em chords.

  

                                                              -Richard

Burchett

"We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer!"

                                                               -J. Buffett

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