Chords for Fruitcakes Jimmy Buffett
Tempo:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret

Jam Along & Learn...
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You know, I was talking to my friend Desdemona the other day.
station and bake shop down near Boone County.
told me that human beings are flawed individuals.
The cosmic bakers took us out of the [D] oven a little [G] too early.
reason we're as crazy as we are.
it.
days.
You know, I was talking to my friend Desdemona the other day.
station and bake shop down near Boone County.
told me that human beings are flawed individuals.
The cosmic bakers took us out of the [D] oven a little [G] too early.
reason we're as crazy as we are.
it.
days.
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You know, I was talking to my friend Desdemona the other day.
She runs a space station and bake shop down near Boone County.
She told me that human beings are flawed individuals. _
_ The cosmic _ bakers took us out of the [D] oven a little [G] too early.
And that's the reason we're as crazy as we are.
And I believe it.
Take, for example, when you go to the movies these days.
_ You know, they try to sell you this jumbo drink, eight extra [A] ounces of watered [G] down
sherry coke for an extra 25 cents.
I don't want it.
I don't want that much organization in my life.
I don't want other people thinking for me.
I want a Junior Mints.
Where do Junior Mints go in the movies?
I don't want a 12 pound Nestle scrunch for $25.
_ I _ _ want Junior Mints.
_ We need more fruitcakes in this world. _ _
Less bakers.
We need people that care.
_ _ _ _ [C]
Exhale.
[D] I [G] don't want to take [C] it anymore.
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[D] Fruitcakes [G] in the kitchen.
_ _ [C] _
[D] Fruitcakes [G] on the street.
_ _ [C]
Strutting [D] naked.
Through [G] the crosswalk [C] in the [G] middle of the week.
Had [C]
baked [D] cookies [G] in the oven.
Had [C] baked [D] people [G] on the bus.
_ [C] They're gonna [D] _ [G] get fruitcake left [C] in [D] every one [G] of us.
_ [C] _
[D] Paradise.
_ [G] La-bam.
[C] _
[D] Paradise.
Take [G] a look around.
[C] I was out [D] in _ [G] California where I [D] hear they have it [G] all.
_ [C] They got [D] rice, [G] lard, mudslides.
They [C] got [D] sushi [G] in the mall.
_ _ [C]
Water [D] bars.
[G] _ Rotten sores.
[C] _
[D] Chinese [G] modern lust.
_ _ [C] _
[D] Shaking big [G] life with the quake.
[C] The [D] secret's in [G] the crust.
_ _ [C] _
[D] Fruitcakes [G] in the kitchen.
_ _ [C] _
[D] Fruitcakes on [G] the street.
_ _ [C]
Strutting [D] naked.
Through [G] the crosswalk in [C] the middle [D] of [G] the week.
Had [C] baked [D] cookies in [G] the oven.
Had [C] baked [D] people on [G] the bus.
They're gonna [C] _
_ [D] _ [G] get fruitcake left in every one of us. _ _
[D] Speaking of fruitcakes, how about the government?
[C] Your tax [D] dollars at [G] work.
_ _ [C] We lost [D] our [G] Martian rocket ship.
[C] The high [D]-paid spokesman [G] said.
_ [C] Looks like [D] that [G] silly rocket ship [C] has lost [D] its foam [G]-shaped head.
_ [C] We spent [D] 90 trillion dollars.
Time to get a look at Mars.
I [C] hear the [D] universe [G] collapse.
Ringing [C]
[D] out among [G] the stars.
_ [C] _
_ [D] Caping [G] the galaxy.
[C] _
[D] Fruitcakes on [G] the earth.
_ _ [C]
Strutting naked [D] _ [G] towards eternity.
_ [E]
Leaving that wasteland.
[G] _ Had [C] baked [D] cookies in [G] the oven.
Had [C] baked [D] people _ [G] _ _ on the bus.
[C] They're gonna [D] get [G] _ fruitcake left [C] in [E] every one [G] of us.
_ [C]
Religion.
[D] _ _ [G] _ Religion.
_ [C] _
_ [D] There's a [G] thin line between Saturday [C] night and Sunday [D] morning.
_ [G] Here we go [C] now.
_ [D] _ [G] All right, all the boys.
Mea culpa, mea [Dm] culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Mea culpa, [G] mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. _
_ [D] Where's the church?
[G] Who took the people?
[C] _
Religion's in the hands of [G] some crazy-ass people.
Television preachers [Em] with bad hair and dimples.
[C] The goddarnest truth [G] is it's not that simple.
[C] It's the Buddhist in [D] you.
It's [G] the pagan in me.
[C] It's the Muslim [E] in him.
[G] She's Catholic, ain't she?
[C] It's that Barnagan [D] look.
It's [G] the wasp in the Jew.
[C] Tell me what's [G] going on.
I ain't got a clue.
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_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] Now here [D] comes the big [G] ones.
_ _ [C] Relationships.
[D] We all [G] got them.
We all [C] want them.
[D] What do we [G] do with them?
Here we go, [C] I'll tell you.
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ She said you got New York fair share.
Now cop [D] up half [G] the rent.
_ [C] I [D] treat my body like a [G] temple.
_ [C] You treat [D] yours [G] like ten.
_ [C] But the right [D] word [G] has the right dime.
[C] Hey, [D] give me a [G] little hug.
_ [C] That's the [D] difference [G] between lightning and [C] a harmless [D] _ [G] lightning bug.
_ [C] _
[D] Fruitcake [G] in the kitchen.
_ _ [C] _
[D] Fruitcake [G] on the street.
_ _ [C]
Stretching [D] naked.
[G] Food crosswalk in [C]
the [G] middle of the week.
Half [C] baked [D] cookies [G] in the oven.
Half [C] baked people [D] _ [G] on the bus.
_ [C] There's a [D] little bit [G] of fruitcake left [C] in [D] every one [G] of us.
_ _ [C]
The [D] future.
[G] _ _ Captain's log, [C]
star date, [D] 2000 [G] and something.
We're [C] seven years [G] from the millennium.
_ [C] That's a [D] science fiction [G] fact.
_ _ [C]
[D] Stanley Kubrick [G] and his buddy Hal.
[C] Now don't [Dm] look that [G] abstract.
_ [C] So I put on [G] my Bob Marley tape [C] and practice [G] what I preach.
_ _ [C]
Get your [G] lost in the reggae mon [C] as I [D] walk along the [Bm] beach.
_ [C] Santa [D] Cruz, Miami, [G] and Santa Fe [C] really [D] is the [G] only way.
[C] It's [D] a jungle out [G] there, kiddies.
Have a very [D] fruitful [G] _ [A] day.
Hey, [C] _
[D] cakes in [G] the kitchen.
_ _ [C]
Cake [D] on [G] the street.
_ _ [C]
Stretching [D] naked.
[G] Food [D] crosswalk in [C] the [D] middle of [G] the week.
Half [C] baked [D] cookies [G] in the oven.
Half [C] baked [D] people [G] on the bus.
_ _ [C]
There's [D] a little [G] bit of fruitcake left [C] in [D] every one [G] of us.
That's right.
[C] _
[G] You too.
Yeah, those [C] crumbs are spread all [D] around [G] this universe.
_ I've seen fruitcakes.
I saw this guy in Santa Monica.
Roller skate naked through the crosswalk.
Down in New Orleans, in the [C] French market, there are fruitcakes [G] like you cannot believe.
[C]
New [G] York, forget it.
Fruitcake city.
[C] _
_ [G] Down in Harlem, we got fruitcakes.
[C] _
_ [G] Spread them crumbs around.
That's [C] right.
We want [G] them around.
_ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [G] Keep baking, baby.
Keep baking.
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You know, I was talking to my friend Desdemona the other day.
She runs a space station and bake shop down near Boone County.
She told me that human beings are flawed individuals. _
_ The cosmic _ bakers took us out of the [D] oven a little [G] too early.
And that's the reason we're as crazy as we are.
And I believe it.
Take, for example, when you go to the movies these days.
_ You know, they try to sell you this jumbo drink, eight extra [A] ounces of watered [G] down
sherry coke for an extra 25 cents.
I don't want it.
I don't want that much organization in my life.
I don't want other people thinking for me.
I want a Junior Mints.
Where do Junior Mints go in the movies?
I don't want a 12 pound Nestle scrunch for $25.
_ I _ _ want Junior Mints.
_ We need more fruitcakes in this world. _ _
Less bakers.
We need people that care.
_ _ _ _ [C]
Exhale.
[D] I [G] don't want to take [C] it anymore.
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[D] Fruitcakes [G] in the kitchen.
_ _ [C] _
[D] Fruitcakes [G] on the street.
_ _ [C]
Strutting [D] naked.
Through [G] the crosswalk [C] in the [G] middle of the week.
Had [C]
baked [D] cookies [G] in the oven.
Had [C] baked [D] people [G] on the bus.
_ [C] They're gonna [D] _ [G] get fruitcake left [C] in [D] every one [G] of us.
_ [C] _
[D] Paradise.
_ [G] La-bam.
[C] _
[D] Paradise.
Take [G] a look around.
[C] I was out [D] in _ [G] California where I [D] hear they have it [G] all.
_ [C] They got [D] rice, [G] lard, mudslides.
They [C] got [D] sushi [G] in the mall.
_ _ [C]
Water [D] bars.
[G] _ Rotten sores.
[C] _
[D] Chinese [G] modern lust.
_ _ [C] _
[D] Shaking big [G] life with the quake.
[C] The [D] secret's in [G] the crust.
_ _ [C] _
[D] Fruitcakes [G] in the kitchen.
_ _ [C] _
[D] Fruitcakes on [G] the street.
_ _ [C]
Strutting [D] naked.
Through [G] the crosswalk in [C] the middle [D] of [G] the week.
Had [C] baked [D] cookies in [G] the oven.
Had [C] baked [D] people on [G] the bus.
They're gonna [C] _
_ [D] _ [G] get fruitcake left in every one of us. _ _
[D] Speaking of fruitcakes, how about the government?
[C] Your tax [D] dollars at [G] work.
_ _ [C] We lost [D] our [G] Martian rocket ship.
[C] The high [D]-paid spokesman [G] said.
_ [C] Looks like [D] that [G] silly rocket ship [C] has lost [D] its foam [G]-shaped head.
_ [C] We spent [D] 90 trillion dollars.
Time to get a look at Mars.
I [C] hear the [D] universe [G] collapse.
Ringing [C]
[D] out among [G] the stars.
_ [C] _
_ [D] Caping [G] the galaxy.
[C] _
[D] Fruitcakes on [G] the earth.
_ _ [C]
Strutting naked [D] _ [G] towards eternity.
_ [E]
Leaving that wasteland.
[G] _ Had [C] baked [D] cookies in [G] the oven.
Had [C] baked [D] people _ [G] _ _ on the bus.
[C] They're gonna [D] get [G] _ fruitcake left [C] in [E] every one [G] of us.
_ [C]
Religion.
[D] _ _ [G] _ Religion.
_ [C] _
_ [D] There's a [G] thin line between Saturday [C] night and Sunday [D] morning.
_ [G] Here we go [C] now.
_ [D] _ [G] All right, all the boys.
Mea culpa, mea [Dm] culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Mea culpa, [G] mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. _
_ [D] Where's the church?
[G] Who took the people?
[C] _
Religion's in the hands of [G] some crazy-ass people.
Television preachers [Em] with bad hair and dimples.
[C] The goddarnest truth [G] is it's not that simple.
[C] It's the Buddhist in [D] you.
It's [G] the pagan in me.
[C] It's the Muslim [E] in him.
[G] She's Catholic, ain't she?
[C] It's that Barnagan [D] look.
It's [G] the wasp in the Jew.
[C] Tell me what's [G] going on.
I ain't got a clue.
[C] _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
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_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] Now here [D] comes the big [G] ones.
_ _ [C] Relationships.
[D] We all [G] got them.
We all [C] want them.
[D] What do we [G] do with them?
Here we go, [C] I'll tell you.
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ She said you got New York fair share.
Now cop [D] up half [G] the rent.
_ [C] I [D] treat my body like a [G] temple.
_ [C] You treat [D] yours [G] like ten.
_ [C] But the right [D] word [G] has the right dime.
[C] Hey, [D] give me a [G] little hug.
_ [C] That's the [D] difference [G] between lightning and [C] a harmless [D] _ [G] lightning bug.
_ [C] _
[D] Fruitcake [G] in the kitchen.
_ _ [C] _
[D] Fruitcake [G] on the street.
_ _ [C]
Stretching [D] naked.
[G] Food crosswalk in [C]
the [G] middle of the week.
Half [C] baked [D] cookies [G] in the oven.
Half [C] baked people [D] _ [G] on the bus.
_ [C] There's a [D] little bit [G] of fruitcake left [C] in [D] every one [G] of us.
_ _ [C]
The [D] future.
[G] _ _ Captain's log, [C]
star date, [D] 2000 [G] and something.
We're [C] seven years [G] from the millennium.
_ [C] That's a [D] science fiction [G] fact.
_ _ [C]
[D] Stanley Kubrick [G] and his buddy Hal.
[C] Now don't [Dm] look that [G] abstract.
_ [C] So I put on [G] my Bob Marley tape [C] and practice [G] what I preach.
_ _ [C]
Get your [G] lost in the reggae mon [C] as I [D] walk along the [Bm] beach.
_ [C] Santa [D] Cruz, Miami, [G] and Santa Fe [C] really [D] is the [G] only way.
[C] It's [D] a jungle out [G] there, kiddies.
Have a very [D] fruitful [G] _ [A] day.
Hey, [C] _
[D] cakes in [G] the kitchen.
_ _ [C]
Cake [D] on [G] the street.
_ _ [C]
Stretching [D] naked.
[G] Food [D] crosswalk in [C] the [D] middle of [G] the week.
Half [C] baked [D] cookies [G] in the oven.
Half [C] baked [D] people [G] on the bus.
_ _ [C]
There's [D] a little [G] bit of fruitcake left [C] in [D] every one [G] of us.
That's right.
[C] _
[G] You too.
Yeah, those [C] crumbs are spread all [D] around [G] this universe.
_ I've seen fruitcakes.
I saw this guy in Santa Monica.
Roller skate naked through the crosswalk.
Down in New Orleans, in the [C] French market, there are fruitcakes [G] like you cannot believe.
[C]
New [G] York, forget it.
Fruitcake city.
[C] _
_ [G] Down in Harlem, we got fruitcakes.
[C] _
_ [G] Spread them crumbs around.
That's [C] right.
We want [G] them around.
_ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [G] Keep baking, baby.
Keep baking.
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