Chords for Jimmy Buffett - Fruitcakes (Official Music Video)

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[G] You know, I was talking to my friend Desdemona the other day.
She runs a space station and bake shop down near Boogletown.
She told me that human beings are flawed individuals.
The cosmic bakers took us out of the oven a little too early.
And that's the reason we're as crazy as we are.
And I believe it.
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[D] Food cakes [G] in the kitchen.
[C] Food [D] cakes [G] on the street.
[C] Strutting [Dm] naked.
Through [G] the crosswalk [C] in the [G] middle of the week.
At Big's, [D] he's [G] in the office.
At [C] Big's, he's [D] on [G] the bus.
[C] There's [D] a little [G] .
fruitcake left [C] in every [D] one [G] of us.
[D] Paradise.
[G] .
Lots of [C] pounds.
[D] Paradise.
[G] Take a look around.
[C] I was out [D] in [G].
California where I [D] hear they have it all.
[G] They [C] got [D] rice, [G] fries, and mudslides.
They got [C] [D] sushi [G] in the mall.
[C] Water [D] bars, [G] .
rondezors, Chinese modern lunch.
[Am] Chicken baked [G] live with [C] quick, the secret, [D] and [G].
crust.
[C] Food [G] cakes in the kitchen.
[C] Food [G] cakes on the street.
[C] Strutting [G] naked.
Through the crosswalk in [C] the [G] middle of the week.
At [C] Big's, [D] he's in [G] the office.
At [C] Big's, [D] he's on [G] the bus.
There's [C] a little [D] [G] .
fruitcake left [C] in [D] every [G] one of us.
[C] [D] Religion.
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Religion.
[C] [D] There's a [G] thin line between Saturday [C] night and Sunday [D] morning.
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[G] Here we go [C] now.
[D] [G] All right, all class.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima [D] culpa.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
[G] [D] Where's the church?.
[G].
Who took the steeple?.
[C] Religion's in the hands of [G] some crazy ass people.
[D] Television preachers with [Em] bad hair and dimples.
The [C] goddarnedest truth [G] is it's not that simple.
[C] It's the Buddhist in [D] you.
[G] It's the pagan in me.
It's the [C] Muslim [F#] in him.
[G] She's Catholic, ain't she?.
[C] It's that Barnegan [D] look.
It's the [G] wise man, the Jew.
[C] Tell me what's [G] going on.
I ain't got no [C] relationships.
[D] [G] .
[C] [D] [G] .
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[C] [D] [G] .
[C] [G] .
[C] [G] We all got them.
We all [C] want them.
[D] [G] .
[C] I'll tell you.
[D] [G] .
She said, you've got to do your fair share.
Now, pop [D] up half [G] the rent.
I treat [D] my body like a [G] temple.
[C] You treat [D] yours like [G] a tent.
[C] But the right [D] word at [G] the right time.
[C] Hey, [D] give me a little [G].
hug.
[Em] That's the [D] difference between [G].
lightning.
and a harmless [D] lightning [G] .
bug.
Oh!.
[C] [D] Fruitcakes [G] in the kitchen.
[C] [D] Fruitcakes on [G] the street.
[C] Strutting naked [D] [G] through the crosswalk.
in [Am] the middle [G] of the week.
Half [C] baked [D] cookies in [G] the oven.
[C] Half baked people [D] [G] on the bus.
[C] There's a little [D] bit [G] of fruitcake left [C] in every [G] one of us.
That's right.
[C] You [G] too.
Yeah, those [C] crumbs are spread all [D] around this [G] universe.
I've seen [C] fruitcakes.
I [G] saw this guy in Santa Monica, roller skate jacking.
[C] through the [D] crosswalk.
[G] Down in New Orleans, in the French [C] market,.
there are fruitcakes [G] like you cannot believe.
New York, forget it.
Fruitcake city.
[C] [G] Down in Ireland, we got fruitcakes.
[C] [G] Spread them crumbs around.
That's right.
[C] We want them [G] around.
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[C] [G] .
Heatwake, baby, heatwake.
[C] [D] [G] [C] [Bm] [G] .
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