Songs For My Own Enjoyment: Margaritaville



Margaritaville
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Category: Fun
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F F F F G G G G C C C C C C C C C 
   
C                         
Nibblin' on sponge cake,  
watchin' the sun bake;  
                                   G     
All of those tourists covered with oil.  
             G             
Strummin' my FOUR string,  
on my front porch swing.  
Smell those shrimp,  
                     C     C7 
they're beginnin' to boil.   
   
F        G           
wasted a -way again  
        C          C7 
in Marga-ritaville,  
F                 
searchin' for my  
G              C    C7 
lost shaker of salt.  
F           G      
some people claim  
               C G       F       
that there's a wo-man to blame,  
      G    F             C      C C C C C C C C 
but I know it's nobody's fault.                 
   
C                       
Don't know the reason,  
stayed here all season  
with nothing to show  
                       G      
but this brand new tat -too.  
but it's a real beauty,  
  G               
a Mexican cutie,  
how it got here  
            C    C7 
I haven't a clue.  
   
F        G           
wasted a -way again  
        C          C7 
in Marga-ritaville,  
F                 
searchin' for my  
G              C    C7 
lost shaker of salt.  
F           G      
some people claim  
               C G       F       
that there's a wo-man to blame,  
      G      F                   C     C C C C C C C C 
now I think, hell it could be my fault.                
   
C                         
I blew out my flip flop,  
stepped on a pop top;  
Cut my heel,  
                      G      
had to cruise on back home.  
            G      
But there's booze  
in the blender,  
and soon it will render  
                                          C   C7 
that frozen concoction that helps me hang on.   
   
F        G           
wasted a -way again  
        C          C7 
in Marga-ritaville,  
F                 
searchin' for my  
G              C    C7 
lost shaker of salt.  
F           G      
some people claim  
               C G       F       
that there's a wo-man to blame,  
      G     F                C      C C C 
but I know, it's my own damn fault.       
F           G      
some people claim  
               C G       F       
that there's a wo-man to blame,  
      G     F                C      C C C  
but I know, it's my own damn fault.     *  
   

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