South Of The South Chords

Capo 5th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse

CWas just a tender chicken, in the Florida rotisserie

Fmy owns sweats basting me, thunder storms are chasing me

Gi bit into a lightning bolt, my own tongue began to smoke

Fi woke up with an empty mouth, watched the watch tick backwards,

 south of thCe south

the csx vibrates the tracks, money order shakes the shacks,

purple skies and orange moons, plants are confident in june

humidity is thick you can cut it with a knife,

if youd like to take breath here honey, im going to cut you out a slice

so i developed gills and i moved into the aquaphor,

fell asleep in wakala springs, woke up down in jupiter

then i moved back to the land high into an orange tree

it was set for life with citrus but my body couldnt take this

a sitting tree

so i strolled down to miami, tried to find myself some friends

found myself down in south beach, and met some manequins

who smelled of coconuts and copper tone, like the smells knew well

as far as conversations go i guess it stopped at the start

of the smell

it was elvis and sinatra,and now wheres your wallet, man i got ya

now if you pull like me they let poor people like me be

they said north beach is a war zone, high rise hotels hollowed out

now we were living large, we were stepping out

and some thirty dollar beach front motel down south of the south

Chorus

 south of soFuth, down in north miami, soCuth of the south

 me and my whole of returning, sFouth of the south

 we were practically married C

so i jumped my pogo stick all the way to ebo city,

where they burned up a couple blocks, and to me seemed like a pity

there was once a cuban district and a center for the arts,

a model like atmosphere homogenous and insincere, they burned its heart right out

down south of the south

so i began a snake bird, an old swamp turkey,

and soem red neck tried to shoot me, tried to make swamp turkey jerky

but i evaded all his bullets and i flew into the gulf,

and i jumped upon a west wind, to a safer haven

out near alcony's and bay land, down south

south of the south

in the town of pensicola, riding bikes like we were kids,

over cobblestones and brick a tab, offensively a bridge,

was a sand lot shot gun shack, to move all rusted out,

and theres a couch on every front porch, flapping screen doors,

ants on the apple cores, pots boiled peanuts, down south

south of the south

south of the south,south of old bellanca, south of tuscunusa,

south of the south, south of ol' alpharetta, south of the south,

south of south carolina, south of south, down south, of the south, of the south