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//   Mike A. Hall           // "If I don't die by Thursday,    //
//                          //                 --J.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

GG Piano Chord 
             AA Piano Chord 
     DD Piano Chord 

I remember the smell of the creosote plant,
EE Piano Chord 
           F#mF#m Piano Chord 
    GdimGdim Piano Chord 
   E7E7 Piano Chord 
      AA Piano Chord 
        BmBm Piano Chord 
        CdimCdim Piano Chord 
  AA Piano Chord 

when we'd have to eat on Easter with my crazy old uncle and aunt.
GG Piano Chord 
               AA Piano Chord 
         DD Piano Chord 

They lived in a big house  Antebellum style,
GG Piano Chord 
          DD Piano Chord 
               GG Piano Chord 
      DD Piano Chord 

and the wind would blow across the old bayou,
AA Piano Chord 
                       DD Piano Chord 

and I was a tranquil little child.

Chorus:
DD Piano Chord 
                BmBm Piano Chord 

Life was just a tire swing.
GG Piano Chord 
             DD Piano Chord 

'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing.
GG Piano Chord 
                    DD Piano Chord 

Black-berry pickin', eatin' fried chicken,
GG Piano Chord 
            DD Piano Chord 
           AA Piano Chord 

and I never knew a thing about pain;
BmBm Piano Chord 

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)

BmBm Piano Chord 
       GG Piano Chord 
                 F#mF#m Piano Chord 
              EmEm Piano Chord 
           DD Piano Chord 

And I've never been west of New Orleans nor east of Pensacola.
GG Piano Chord 
                    F#mF#m Piano Chord 
                   E7E7 Piano Chord 
        AA Piano Chord 

My only contact with the outside world was an R.C.A. Victrola.
BmBm Piano Chord 
                                   AA Piano Chord 

And Elvis would sing and then I'd dream about expensive cars,
E7E7 Piano Chord 

and who would've figured twenty years later
AA Piano Chord 
                 E7E7 Piano Chord 
              F#m7F#m7 Piano Chord 

I'd be rubbin' shoulders with the stars.
BmBm Piano Chord 

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.]