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SOL MIm7 SOL MIm7
Now you country fools in your one-horse town, you can laugh at me
SOL MIm7 SOL MIm7
It's plain as rain that you've never been down to the southern sea
SOL MIm7 SOL MIm7
To see me now is like watching a fish on dry land
SOL MIm7 FA/DO DO
I only wish you could see me down in the is- lands
DO RE SOL
Mister, that's my home
FA DO LAm7 DO/RE SOL MIm7 SOL MIm7
What a fool I was to leave the only happiness I've known.
SOL MIm7 SOL MIm7
You see me comin', you wink your eye and call me Captain Jim
SOL MIm7
And when I don't do nothin' but to walk on by you say,
SOL MIm7
"Baby get a load of him."
SOL MIm7 SOL MIm7
All I need is the sea and the sky and I know where I stand
SOL MIm7 FA/DO DO
instead of you hicks straight out of the sticks deciding I ain't a man
DO RE SOL
You'll never understand;
FA DO LAm7 RE
Up here I'm just a whiskey bum but down there I'm a king
FA DO LAm7 REsus4
It sounds just like the angels up in heaven when they sing:
RE7 SOL MIm7 SOL MIm7 SOL MIm7
"Welcome home, welcome home." -- Such a sight to see
FA DO SOL/SI LAm7
instead of some Salvation Army sister singin'
DO/RE SOL MIm7 SOL MIm7
"Nearer My God to Thee."
SOL MIm7 SOL MIm7
Now I know that the Yankee whiskey is takin' away my mind
SOL MIm7 SOL MIm7
and I know that run is the only drink suitable to man-kind
SOL MIm7 SOL MIm7
And I know that this tree I'm under is shaped entirely wrong
SOL MIm7 FA/DO DO
I need to see a gentle palm tree and I won't wait too long
DO RE SOL
I can feel that it's comin' on strong
FA DO LAm7 RE
The first cold wind of winter is flappin' in my clothes
FA DO LAm7 DO/RE
Showin' me the way with the direction that it blows.
SOL MIm SOL MIm7
Welcome home, welcome home, let it blow. [repeat and fade]
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