Tono: G
G
Em7
G
Em7
Now you country fools in your one-horse town, you can laugh at me
G
Em7
G
Em7
It's plain as rain that you've never been down to the southern sea
G
Em7
G
Em7
To see me now is like watching a fish on dry land
G
Em7
F/C
C
I only wish you could see me down in the is- lands
C
D
G
Mister, that's my home
F
C
Am7
C/D
G
Em7
G
Em7
What a fool I was to leave the only happiness I've known.
G
Em7
G
Em7
You see me comin', you wink your eye and call me Captain Jim
G
Em7
And when I don't do nothin' but to walk on by you say,
G
Em7
"Baby get a load of him."
G
Em7
G
Em7
All I need is the sea and the sky and I know where I stand
G
Em7
F/C
C
instead of you hicks straight out of the sticks deciding I ain't a man
C
D
G
You'll never understand;
F
C
Am7
D
Up here I'm just a whiskey bum but down there I'm a king
D7
G
Em7
G
Em7
G
Em7
"Welcome home, welcome home." -- Such a sight to see
F
C
G/B
Am7
instead of some Salvation Army sister singin'
C/D
G
Em7
G
Em7
"Nearer My God to Thee."
G
Em7
G
Em7
Now I know that the Yankee whiskey is takin' away my mind
G
Em7
G
Em7
and I know that run is the only drink suitable to man-kind
G
Em7
G
Em7
And I know that this tree I'm under is shaped entirely wrong
G
Em7
F/C
C
I need to see a gentle palm tree and I won't wait too long
C
D
G
I can feel that it's comin' on strong
F
C
Am7
D
The first cold wind of winter is flappin' in my clothes
F
C
Am7
C/D
Showin' me the way with the direction that it blows.
G
Em
G
Em7
Welcome home, welcome home, let it blow. (repeat and fade)