Tablature life is just a tire swing - Jimmy 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.]  

   


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 Life is just a tire swing, de Jimmy buffett 

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