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Buffett Jimmy - Life Is Just A Tire Swing guitar tab

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// Mike A. Hall // "If I don't die by Thursday, //

// mhall@moe.coe.uga.edu // I'll be roarin' Friday night." //

// // --J.Buffett //

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Life Is Just A Tire Swing

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[Words and Music by Jimmy Buffett (c) 1974]

Intro: Bm

G A D

I remember the smell of the creosote plant,

E F#m Gdim E7 A Bm Cdim A

when we'd have to eat on Easter with my crazy old uncle and aunt.

G A D

They lived in a big house Antebellum style,

G D G D

and the wind would blow across the old bayou,

A D

and I was a tranquil little child.

Chorus:

D Bm

Life was just a tire swing.

G D

'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing.

G D

Black-berry pickin', eatin' fried chicken,

G D A

and I never knew a thing about pain;

Bm

Life was just a tire swing.

2.

In a few summers my folks packed me off to camp;

yeah, me and my cousin' Baxter in our pup tent with a lamp.

And in a few days Baxter went home, and he left me by myself.

And I knew that I'd stay, it was better that way,

and I could get along without any help.

(2nd chorus)

Life was just a tire swing.

'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing.

Chasin' after sparrows with rubber-tipped arrows,

knowin' I could never hurt a thing,

and life was just a tire swing.

(then continue)

Bm G F#m Em D

And I've never been west of New Orleans nor east of Pensacola.

G F#m E7 A

My only contact with the outside world was an R.C.A. Victrola.

Bm A

And Elvis would sing and then I'd dream about expensive cars,

E7

and who would've figured twenty years later

A E7 F#m7

I'd be rubbin' shoulders with the stars.

Bm

Life was just a tire swing.

3.

Then the other morning on some Illinois road

I fell asleep at the wheel,

But was quickly wakened up by a 'Ma Bell' telephone pole,

and a bunch of Grant Wood faces screaming 'Is he still alive?',

But through the window I could see it hangin' from a tree,

and I knew that I had survived.

(3rd chorus)

Life was just a tire swing.

'Jambalaya's still the best song that I sing.

Black-berry pickin', eatin' fried chicken,

and I finally learned a lot about pain,

'cause life is just a tire swing.

Life was just a tire swing.

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Chord chart:

F#m - |xx3222| F#m7 - |xx2222| Gdim - |xx2323| E7 - |o2o1oo|

Bm - |xxo432| Cdim - |xx1212| Em7 - |o2oooo| Em - |o22ooo|

[This song is published in the book "The Songs of Jimmy Buffett"

by CPP/Belwin Music Company.] \Z

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