Chords for Jimmy Buffett - Death of an Unpopular Poet

Big party in Nashville last night you go ahead and whoop it up with all the winners.
_ _ I
Had part of a margarita last night _ _ _ _ _
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It's a confession and I don't even have to do it I'm a Baptist
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
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That was good because I posted I posted a picture of you on our website because I knew you were gonna win and
_ _ And it was a picture of him having a part of a glass of rose in Paris and that was like in September and he
Looked so happy that I thought we don't get to see we have a name for him [Eb] when he does this part of margarita
or an 8 16th of a glass of rose [Cm] a
_ [B] _ _ _
_ You're running into [Ab] Johnny Springbren _
_ [N] _ _ Watch out Watch out _ _ _ _ _ _
Big party up there?
[G] Big party
[C] Did _ you [Db] pick up my awards? _ _
[C] Well, it was discussed
[D] _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
I'm gonna be back
In my next career I'm [B] coming back
I'm coming home
I got [D] loaners _
In _ _ _ _ _ [G]
the meantime
[Bm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Em] I don't get to play this song enough
[F] _ I love this song I really do
And I'm gonna be back
_ [G] _
_ _ [Bb] Most people know the story of how I got here Jerry Jeff [Ab] Walker brought me down here
And I became a _ _ _ [F] 1947 hacker
_ _ [Bm] _
_ _ What [A] a lot of people don't know is when I was when I was living with him working in a garage while I was waiting to get a job in [Eb] Miami
_ _ [Db] I got into a [E] book of poems by Kenneth Patchen [D] that _ Jerry [Ab] Jeff had at his house
And I [Gb] just kind of I kind of loved the portrait I loved the story and I loved I didn't know anything about it
It's great when you discover great [Gb] writers that you didn't know anything about [Db] or great songwriters or anything like that so
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [G] _
_ _ And it happened at the right [Ab] time because [E] I was reading all this [C] Kenneth Patchen stuff and he died very young
And _ and [G] then I was going out trying to deal with the you know [Eb] after the record [N] deal came along having to get into it
_ _ [G] _ _ _ It kind of puts some interesting situations and challenges and decisions that you have to [Gb] make
_ And at that point [Ab] there's nobody out there but you
_ [G] And that's why you [C] know narcissism yes I am a confirmed [G] narcissist because there was nobody [G] back there who gave a shit
_ _ You were on your own and you better be good
So _ [C] this is a this is for [N] Jerry Jeff and for the great Kenneth [G] Patchen _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] Death on a Pottery Port _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I once knew [Am] a poet
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
Lived before [D] his time
_ _ He [G] _ _ _ [Bm] and his [C] _
dogs for _ a _ run _
Listened to a wily [D] grind _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ Words to [Bm] make you happy
_ _ _ _ _ [F]
Words [D] to make [C] you _ cry
_ _ [D] Please no
[G] _ _
_ And then [Bm] one day [Em] the [C] poet
If you [G] are I'll just [C] take my blood block off
[D] Suddenly did [G] die of burn
_ But he left behind [C] a closet
_ _ [D] _ _ _
[C] _ _ Filled with verse and [D]
rhyme
[C] _ _ _ _ [D] Went through some _ strange [G] _ transaction _ _
[C] One _ word's printed _ in the [D] time
[E] _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ And _ [Bm] everybody's searching
_ _ _ [C] For the king of _ [F] underground
_ [C] _ _ _
[D] Well _ _ _ _ _ [G] they found him down [C] in Florida
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] In _ tombstone _ foreground
[G] _ _ _
Now _ _ _ _ everybody [D]
knows the line
_ [C] From _ his book he _ [Am] calls for an unknown
[C] _ _ _ _ _ I wonder [D] if he _ knows he's doing
[C] _
_ [Gb] Quite _ [G] this fine
_ _ His books they're _ [C] all the same
_ [G] His _
[C] _ _ _ words return [D] to songs
_ [G] _ They had his brother [Bm] on [C] a talk show
[G] _
_ [C] Though they never got [E] along
_ _ Now [Em] _
_ _ _ he's [Bm] called the mortal
_ Hell [C] he's even _ taught [Fm] in school _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
Say he _ _ used his [C] talent _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] For a most [Db] _
[G] _ proficient tool _ _
But he left [Gb] all of [C]
his _ [G] royalty
_ _ [C] To spooner his old [D] hound
I love this part
_ He could own [Gb] a [Em] steak and bacon
_ [G] And _ [C]
a _ doghouse ten [D] feet around
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ And everybody [Bm] _ _ wonders _ _
[C] Did he _ really _ [Fm] lose his _ _ [D] mind _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] No he _ [Bm]
was [C] just a poor
_ [G] Who _ _ _ lived [D] before his [G] _
[C] time
_ [G] _ _ _ _
[Bm] He was [C] just a poor
[G] _ _
Who [C] _ _ _ lived _
_ [D] before [Am] _ _ _ [G] _
his _ time
_ _ [Em] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [N] _ _
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Thank you! _ _ _ _ _ _
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