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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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Intro: Bm

	G	A	D
I	remember the	smell	of the creosote plant,

	E	F#m	Gdim	E7	A	Bm	Cdim	A
when w	e'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 bay	ou,

	A	D
and	I was a tranquil little	child.

Chorus:

	D	Bm
	Life was just a t	ire swing.

	G	D
'Jambalaya' was the	only song I c	ould 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.

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 Pensa	cola.

	G	F#m	E7	A
My	only contact with the	outside world was an	R.C.A. Vic	trola.

	Bm	A
And	Elvis would sing and then I'd dream a	bout 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.

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

Jimmy Buffett

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