Songs You Know By Heart Album

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  • Intro: ** Play "|" as strums or beats
     
    Bm |||| A |
  • Bm |||| G |
    Bm |||| A | D |
     
  • G A D
    Tried to amend my carnivorous habits
    G A D
  • Made it nearly seventy days
    G A D
    Losin' weight without speed, eatin' sunflower seeds
  • E A
    Drinkin' lots of carrot juice and soakin' up rays
    G A D G
  • But at night I'd have these wonderful dreams
    G A Bm
    Some kind of sensuous treat
  • G D G D
    Not zucchini, fettucini or bulgar wheat
    G D A D
  • But a big warm bun and a huge hunk of meat
     
    Chorus:
  • G A D
    Cheeseburger in paradise
    G A D
  • Heaven on Earth with an onion slice
    G A D
    Not too particular, not too precise
  • G D A D
    I'm just a Cheeseburger in paradise
     
  • Heard about the old time sailor men
    They eat the same thing again and again
    Warm beer and bread they said could raise the dead
  • Well it reminds me of the menu at a Holiday Inn
     
    But times change, sailors these days
  • When I'm in port I get what I need
    Not just Havanas or bananas or daiquiris
    But that American creation on which I feed
  •  
    Chorus:
    Cheeseburger in Paradise
  • Medium rare with mustard be nice
    Heaven on Earth with an onion slice
    I'm just a Cheeseburger in Paradise
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    ** (Guitar Tacet throughout)
    ** I like mine with lettuce and tomato
  • ** Heinz 57 and French fried potatoes
    ** Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer
    ** Well good God almighty which way do I steer for my
  •  
    Chorus:
    Cheeseburger in Paradise
  • Makin' the best of every virtue and vice
    Worth every damn bit of sacrifice to get a
    Cheeseburger in Paradise
  • I need a Cheeseburger in Paradise
    I'm just a Cheeseburger in Paradise
     
  • Repeat intro
    Repeat Guitar Tacet part (above)
     
  •  
    A
    He went to Paris lookin' for answers
  • D A
    To questions that bothered him so
     
  • He was impressive, young and aggressive
    D E7
    Savin' the world on his own
  •  
    D
    But the warm summer breezes
  • A
    The French wines and cheeses
    D E7
  • Put his ambition at bay
    A
    The summers and winters
  •  
    Scattered like splinters
    D E7 A
  • And four or five years slipped away
     
    Then he went to England, played the piano
  • And married an actress named Kim
    They had a fine life, she was a good wife
    And bore him a young son named Jim
  •  
    And all of the answers and all of the questions
    Locked in his attic one day
  • 'Cause he liked the quiet clean country livin'
    And twenty more years slipped away
     
  • Well the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady
    And left him with only one eye
    His body was battered, his whole world was shattered
  • And all he could do was just cry
     
    While the tears were a-fallin' he was recallin'
  • Answers he never found
    So he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean
    And left England without a sound
  •  
    Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin's
    And drinks his Green Label each day
  • Writing his memoirs, losin' his hearin'
    But he don't care what most people say
     
  • Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion
    If he likes you he'll smile and he'll say
    "Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
  • But I had a good life all the way"
     
    A
  • And he went to Paris lookin' for answers
    D E7 A
    To questions that bothered him so
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    (needs work)
  •  
    Intro tab: (repeat three times???) last part of tab missing
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    & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
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    Bb C F
    She came down from Cincinnati
  • Bb C F
    It took her three days on the train
    Bb C F
  • Lookin' for some peace and quiet
    Bb C F
    Hoped to see the sun again
  •  
    Bb C F
    But now she lives down by the ocean
  • Bb C F
    She's takin' care to look for sharks
    Bb C F
  • They hang out in the local bars
    Bb C F
    And they feed right after dark
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    Am7 Dm7
    Can't you feel 'em circlin' honey?
  • Am7 Dm7
    Can't you feel 'em swimmin' around?
    Bb C Bb C
  • You got fins to the left, fins to the right
    Bb C F
    And you're the only bait in town
  • Am7 Dm7 Am7 Dm7
    Oh whoa, Oh whoa
    Bb C Bb C
  • You got fins to the left, fins to the right
    Bb C F
    And you're the only bait in town
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    She's saving up all of her money
    Wants to head it south in May
  • Maybe roll in the sand with a rock 'n' roll man
    Somewhere down Montserrat way
    But the money's good in the season
  • Helps to lighten up her load
    Boys keep her high as the months go by
    She's gettin' postcards from the road
  •  
    Chorus:
    Can't you feel 'em closin' in honey?
  • Can't you feel 'em schoolin' around?
    You got fins to the left, fins to the right
    And you're the only girl in town
  •  
    (harmonica solo)
    Repeat Intro tab
  •  
    Sailed off to Antigua
    It took her three days on a boat
  • Lookin' for some peace and quiet
    Maybe keep her dreams afloat
    But now she feels like a remora
  • 'Cause the school's still close at hand
    Just behind the reef are the big white teeth
    Of the sharks that can swim on the land
  •  
    Repeat first chorus
    Repeat Intro tab and fade
  •  
    Chord diagrams: Bb - |x13331| Am7 - |xo2o1o| Dm7 - |xxo211|
     
  • 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
     
    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
  •  
     
    G
  • As the son of a son of a sailor
    F C G
    I went out on the sea for adventure
  • C G
    Expanding the view of the captain and crew
    D G
  • Like a man just released from indenture
     
    G
  • As a dreamer of dreams and a traveling man
    F C G
    I have chalked up many a mile
  • C G
    Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks
    D G
  • And I learned much from both of their styles
     
    Chorus:
  • F C
    Son of a son, son of a son
    G
  • Son of a son of a sailor
    F C
    Son of a gun, load the last ton
  • C
    One step ahead of the jailer
     
  •  
    Now away in the near future
    Southeast of disorder
  • You can shake the hand of the Mango man
    As he greets you at the boarder
     
  • And the lady she hails from Trinidad
    Island of the spices
    Salt for your meat and cinnamon sweet
  • And the rum is for all your good vices
     
    F C
  • Haul the sheet in as we ride on the wind
    G
    That our forefathers harnessed before us
  • F C
    Hear the bells ring as the tide ringing sings
    G
  • It's a son of a gun of a chorus
     
     
  • Where it all ends I can't fathom my friends
    If I knew I might toss out my anchor
    So I'll cruise along always searching for songs
  • Not a lawyer a thief or a banker
     
    But the son of a son, son of a son
  • Son of a son of a sailor
    Son of a gun, load the last ton
    One step ahead of the jailer
  • I'm just a son of a son, son of a son
    Son of a son of a sailor
     
  • F C
    The sea's in my veins, my tradition remains
    G
  • I'm just glad I don't live in a trailer
     
     
  • 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
  •  
     
    Chord diagrams: Bm - |xxo432| F#m - |xx4222|
  •  
    From "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time"
     
  • Note: play in G, capo 2nd fret
    G C
    Headin' up to San Francisco
  • D G
    For the Labor Day week-end show,
    C
  • I've got my hush-puppies on I guess I
    D G
    Never was meant for glitter rock and roll
  • Am C D D7
    And, honey, I didn't know, that I'd be missin' you so
     
  • Chorus:
    C G
    Come Monday it'll be all right
  • C D
    Come Monday I'll be holdin' you tight
    G Bm C D
  • I spent four lonely days in a brown L. A. haze
    C D G
    And I just want you back by my side
  •  
    Yes, it's been quite a summer
    Rent-a-cars and west-bound trains
  • And now you're off on vacation
    Somethin' you tried to explain
    And darlin', it's I love you so
  • That's the reason I just let you go
     
    (Repeat chorus)
  •  
    Bridge:
    Amaj7 Dmaj7 Amaj7 Dmaj7
  • I can't help it honey, you're that much a part of me now
    Amaj7 Dmaj7
    Remember that night in Montana
  • C 5/2 5/0 C 5/2 5/0 D F C G
    when we said there'd be no room for doubt
     
  • I hope you're enjoyin' the scen'ry
    I know that it's pretty up there
    We can go hikin' on Tuesday
  • With you I'd walk anywhere
    California has worn me quite thin
    I just can't wait to see you again
  •  
    (Repeat chorus)
    G Bm C D
  • I spent four lonely days in a brown L. A. haze
    C D F C G
    And I just want you back by my side...
  •  
     
    Chord diagrams: Amaj7=|x02120| Dmaj7=|xx0222|
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    G
    Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
  • C D Am7 G
    Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
    Am D Am7 G
  • You've seen it all, you've seen it all....
     
    2)
  • Watched the men who rode you switch from sails to steam
    And in your belly you hold the treasure that few have ever seen
    Most of them dreams, most of them dreams
  •  
    3)
    Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
  • The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
    I'm an over forty victim of fate
    Arriving too late, arriving too late
  •  
    4)
    I've done a bit of smugglin', I've run my share of grass
  • I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast
    Never meant to last, never meant to last
     
  • 5)
    I have been drunk now for over two weeks,
    I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks,
  • But I've got stop wishin', got to go fishin'
    I'm down to rock bottom again,
    Just a few friends, just a few friends...
  •  
    6)
    I go for younger women, lived with several awhile
  • And though I ran away, they'll come back one day
    And I still can manage a smile.
    It just takes a while, just takes a while
  •  
    7)
    Mother, mother ocean, after all these years I've found
  • My occupational hazard being my occupation's just not around
    I feel like I've drowned, gonna head uptown....
     
  •  
    D D7 G D
    I really do, appreciate the fact you're sittin' here
  • D G E7
    Your voice sounds so wonderful
    E7 A7
  • But your face don't look too clear
    G D
    So barmaid bring a pitcher, another round o' brew
  • G A D D7
    Honey why don't we get drunk and screw
     
  • Chorus:
    G A D
    Why don't we get drunk and screw?
  • E7 A7
    I just bought a waterbed filled up for me and you
    G
  • They say you are a snuff queen
    D
    Honey I don't think that's true
  • G A D
    So, why don't we get drunk and screw
     
  • Spoken: "Pick it Coral Reefers, here we go..."
     
    Solo (violin)
  •  
    Chorus:
    Why don't we get drunk and screw?
  • I just bought a waterbed filled up for me and you
    They say you are a snuff queen
    Honey I don't think that's true
  • So, why don't we get drunk and screw?
    Yeah, now baby I say, "Lord!,"
    Why don't we get drunk and screw
  •  
     
    Intro: D G A D G A
  •  
    A D
    Boat drinks
  • G A D
    Boys in the band ordered boat drinks
    G A D
  • Visitors scored on the home rink
    G A D G A
    Everything seems to be wrong
  •  
    A D G A D
    Lately newspapers mentioned cheap airfare
  • G A D
    I gotta fly to St. Somewhere
    G A D
  • I'm close to bodily harm
     
    20 degrees and the hockey game's on
  • Nobody cares, they're all way too far gone, screaming
    Boat drinks, something to keep 'em all warm
     
  • This morning I shot six holes in my freezer
    I think I've got cabin fever
    Somebody sound the alarm
  •  
    Bridge:
    Fmaj7 C
  • I'd like to go where the pace of life's slow
    G C
    Could you beam me somewhere, Mr. Scott?
  • Fmaj7 C
    Any old place here on Earth or in space
    E F#m7 A G F#m A
  • You pick the century and I'll pick the spot
     
    But I know I should be leaving this climate
  • I've got a verse and can't rhyme it
    I gotta go where it's warm
     
  • Boat drinks
    Waitress, I need two more boat drinks
    Then I'm heading south 'fore my dream shrinks
  • I gotta go where it's warm [I gotta go where it's]
    I gotta go where it's warm [I gotta go where it's]
    I gotta go where it's WARM!
  •  
    G A G A
    I gotta go where there ain't any snow
  • G A G A
    Where there ain't any blow, 'cause my fin sinks so low
    G A D
  • I gotta go where it's warm
     
     
  • Intro: B C B C F# G B C
     
    B C B C
  • Grapefruit a bathin' suit
    F# G
    Chew a little juicy fruit
  • C
    Wash away the night
     
  • B C B C
    Drive-in you guzzle gin
    F# G
  • Commit a little mortal sin
    C
    It's good for the soul
  •  
    Chorus:
    Dm7 G7 Cmaj7 C6
  • And oh it gets so damn lonely
    Dm7 G7 Cmaj7
    When you're on a plane alone
  • Dm7 G7 Cmaj7 C6
    And if I had the money honey I'd strap you in beside me
    D7 G7
  • And never ever leave you leave you at home all alone and cryin'
     
     
  • Ten speed no need
    My pickup gets me where I please
    Chuggin' down the street
  •  
    But I'll be leavin'
    In a little while
  • So close your eyes and I'll
    I'll be back real soon
     
  • Spoken: "Ah, take it Refers... Lady's choice, everybody dance..."
     
    Repeat chorus
  •  
    Chord diagrams: F# - |xx4322| D7 -|xxo212| Dm7 - |xxo211|
    G7 - |32ooo1| Cmaj7-|x32ooo| C6 - |xx2213|
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    D F#7 B7
  • Now they make new movies in old black and white
    E7 A7
    With happy endings, where nobody fights
  • D F#7 B7
    So if you find yourself in that nostalgic rage
    E7 A7
  • Honey, jump right up and show your age
     
    Chorus:
  • D F#7 B7
    I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
    E7 A7 D
  • The "Boston Blackie" kind
    D F#7 B7
    A two toned Ricky Ricardo jacket
  • E7 A7
    And an autographed picture of Andy Devine
     
  • D D7
    Oh I remember bein' buck-toothed and skinny
    G Bb
  • Writin' fan letters to Sky's niece Penny
    D F#7 B7
    Oh I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
  • E7 A7 D
    Then I could solve some mysteries too
     
  • Em B7 Em B7
    Oh it's Bandstand, Disneyland, growin' up fast
    Em B7 Em
  • Drinkin' on a fake I.D.
    F#m C7 F#m C7
    And Rama of the jungle was everyone's Bawana
  • E7 A7
    But only jazz musicians were smokin' marijuana
    D F#7 B7
  • Yeah, I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
    E7 A7 D
    then I could solve some mysteries too
  •  
    (same as above chords with this verse)
    But then it's flat top, dirty bob, coppin' a feel
  • Grubbin' on the livin' room floor (so sore)
    Yeah, they send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge,
    But all you want to do is learn how to score
  •  
    D F#7 B7
    Yeah, but now I'm gettin' old, don't wear underwear
  • E7 A7
    I don't go to church and I don't cut my hair
    D F#7 B7
  • But I can go to movies and see it all there
    E7 A7 D
    Just the way that it used to be
  •  
    Chorus:
    That's why I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
  • The "Boston Blackie" kind, a two-toned Ricky Ricardo jacket
    And an autographed picture of Andy Devine
     
  • Oh, I could be anyone I wanted to be
    Maybe suave Errol Flynn or a Sheik of Araby
    If I only had a pencil thin mustache
  • Then I could do some cruisin' too
     
    D
  • Yeah, Bryl-cream, a little dab'll do yah
    E7 A7 D
    Oh, I could do some cruisin' too
  •  
    Chord diagrams: E7 - |o2o1oo| A7 - |xo2o2o|
    B7 - |x212o2| F#7- |xx432o|
  • F#m - |244222| Bb - |113331| C7 - |x3231o|
     
    Chorus:
  • F
    I don't know
    C7
  • I don't know
    F Bb
    I don't know where I'm a gonna go
  • F C7 F
    When the vol-cano blow
     
  • F Bb F
    Ground she's movin' under me
    Bb F
  • Tidal waves out on the sea
    Bb F
    Sulphur smoke up in the sky
  • Bb F
    Pretty soon we learn to fly
     
  • (Repeat chorus)
     
    My girl quickly say to me
  • Mon you better watch your feet
    Lava come down soft and hot
    You better lava me now or lava me not
  •  
    (Repeat chorus)
     
  • No time to count what I'm worth
    'Cause I just left the planet earth
    Where I go I hope there's rum
  • Not to worry mon soon come
     
    (Repeat chorus)
  • F Bb F
    But I don't want to land in New York City
    C7 F
  • Don't want to land in Mexi-co
    Bb F
    Don't want to land on no Three Mile Island
  • C7 F
    Don't want to see my skin aglow
     
  • Don't want to land in Commanche Sky park
    Or in Nashville, Tennessee
    Don't want to land in no San Juan airport
  • Or the Yukon Territory
     
    Don't want to land no San Diego
  • Don't want to land in no Buzzards Bay
    Don't want to land on no Eye-Yatollah
    I got nothin' more to say
  •  
    (Repeat chorus)
     
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