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*This song is played on a capo 2 guitar....
Intro RE LA MI LA RE LA MI LA
RE LA MI LA RE LA MI LA
MI LA
My garden is filled with papayas and mangos
MI LA
My life is a mixture of reggaes and tangos
RE LA MI
Taste for the good life, I can live it no other way
RE LA
While out on the beach there are two empty chairs
RE LA
That say more than the people who ever sit there
RE LA MI
From under my lone palm I can look out on the day
Chorus
RE LA MI LA
Where no bird flies by my window
RE LA MI LA
No ship is tied to my tree
RE LA
Love is a wave building to a crescendo
E (Intro chords)
Ride if you will, ride it with me
I know this girl made memories and phrases
Who lived her whole life in both chapters and phrases
Danced 'till the dawn, wished all her worries away
Well she wasn't crazy, no she wasn't mad
She just wanted the father that she never had
From under my lone palm I think about her today
Chorus
Bridge:
FA#m LA
We sailed from the port of indecision
FA#m LA
Young and wild with oh so much to learn
SOL RE MI FA#m
Days turn into years as we tried to fool our fears
RE MI LA
But to the port of indecision I returned
My gardens are filled with papayas and mangos
My life is a mixture of jingles and jangles
Come Christmas winds and blow all my worries away
Chorus
Intro LA MI SI MI LA SI MI
LA MI SI MI LA SI MI
LA MI SI MI LA SI MI
Delaney talks to statues as she dances 'round the pool
LA MI SI MI LA SI MI
She chases cats through Roman ruins and stomps on big toadstools
LA MI SI MI LA SI LA MI
She speaks a language all her own that I can not discover
LA MI SI MI LA SI LA MI
But she knows I love her so when I tuck her 'neath the covers
Chorus
LA MI SI MI LA MI SI MI
Father, daughter, down by the water
LA MI SI MI LA MI SI MI
Shells sink, dreams float-- life's good on our boat
Delaney draws me pictures, she finger paints the sand
We chase the dogs and hop like frogs, then I do my bad handstand
She's growing up too fast for me and asking lots of questions
Some I know the answers to and some I'm looking for suggestions
Chorus
Father, daughter, born by the water
Surf's up, sun's down-- life in a beach town
Bridge:
DO#m SOL#m LA SI
And some of the things I've seen maybe she won't have to see
DO#m SOL#m LA SI
But there's a lot I want to pass along that was handed down to me
*Repeat first verse and Chorus
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I II
SOL DO SOL
Oh, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry any more,
SOL DO SOL
'Cause when life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.
Amin Emin C D
Think this through with me; let me know your mind.
DO RE SOL RE DO SOL RE SOL
Whoa-oh, what I want to know-oh, is are you kind.
SOL DO SOL
It's a buck dancer's choice, my friend, better take my advice;
SOL DO SOL
You know all the rules by now, and the fire from the ice.
Amin Emin C D
Will you come with me, won't you come with me?
DO RE SOL RE DO SOL RE SOL
Whoa-oh, what I want to know-oh, will you come with me?
G C G Amin G D
God damn! well I declare! Have you seen the like?
RE DO SOL RE DO RE
Their walls are built of cannonballs, their motto is "Don't tread on me".
G C Amin G D
Come hear Uncle John's band playing by the riverside,
DO SOL RE DO RE
Got some things to talk about, here beside the rising tide.
G Bmin C D G Bmin C D G Bmin C D G Bmin C D
SOL DO SOL
It's the same story the crow told me, it's the only one he knows;
SOL DO SOL
Like the morning sun you come, and like the wind you go.
Amin Emin C D
Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait.
DO RE SOL RE DO SOL RE SOL
Whoa-oh, what I want know-oh, where does the time go?
SOL DO SOL
I live in a silver mine and I call it Beggar's Tomb;
SOL DO SOL
I've got me a violin and I beg you, call a tune.
Amin Emin C D
Anybody's choice, I can hear your voice.
DO RE SOL RE DO SOL RE SOL
Whoa-oh, what I want to know-oh, how does the song go?
G C Amin G D
Come hear Uncle John's band by the riverside
DO SOL RE DO RE
Got some things to talk about here beside the rising tide.
G C Amin G D
Come hear Uncle John's band playing to the tide
DO SOL RE DO RE
Come on along or go alone, he's come to take his children home.
Dmin G C Dmin G C Dmin G C Dmin G C
I II I II I II I II
II C G
Whoa-oh, what I want to know-oh, how does the song go?
(A capella)
Come hear Uncle John's band by the riverside
Got some things to talk about, here beside the rising tide.
G C Amin G D
Come here Uncle John's band playing to the tide,
DO SOL RE DO RE
Come on along or go alone, he's come to take his children home.
Dmin G C Dmin G C Dmin G C I
La lala lala, la lala lala, la lala lalaaaaa......
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