Intro
C Am F C
C Am F C
Walking around the happiest place in the world
C Am F C
All I really know is that your hair is still curled
Em F C
South of Brownsville, Texas, South of Miami Beach
C Am F G
All it means to me is that you're further out of reach
Em F
Every where is sand and sun, blue sky water too
C Am F G
I... need you
C Am F G (do this in between each verse)
C Am F C
Spanish moss is hanging and you find a polished stone
C Am F C
Pocket it for luck and then you walk on alone
C Am F C
They'll rent you a bicycle with the tires blown
C Am F G
They'll carve you up a blackened fish and strip it to the bone
Em F
D slave ship just came in, I've been talking to the crew
C Am F G
I... need you
C Am F C
Well in that house Hemingway is boxing in the back
C Am F C
I go to the library and check out all the facts
C Am F C
Nowadays it's hard to write a line, my own thoughts bore me
C Am F G
I found me an island kid who says he'll do it for me
Em F
I'm wiping all my tears away so no one has a clue
C Am F G
That I... need you
C Am F C
The last plane out of Saigon did not know that it was
C Am F C
Every man in prison thinks he's locked up for a cause
C Am F C
I need something to do , my violin needs to sound
C Am F C
I'm going to see if Ernest wants to go a couple rounds
Em F
Sometimes you gotta get lost till you wind up someplace new
C Am F G
I... need you
D Dsus D Dm Dm/C A#
Some bird's flapping in the road on some crazy madman's string
D Dsus D F G/B
Something's messed up with his wing, something's messed up with my everything
C Am F C
So here's the truth at last, I tell you, Hemingway is dead
C Am F C
And everybody wants to find a steak that's slightly red
Em F C
I thought I could escape myself by just not getting dressed
C Am F G
I thought I could escape you by coming to Key West
Em C F
Sometimes you get lost and you don't find something new
C Am F G
I... need you
C Am F G
I... need you
C Am F G
I... need you