Captain Jims Drunken Dream Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

 Now you Gcountry fools in your Em7one-horse town, you can Glaugh at me Em7

 It's Gplain as rain that you've Em7never been down to the Gsouthern sea Em7

 To Gsee me now is like Em7watching a fish on Gdry land Em7

 I Gonly wish you could Em7see me down in the FisC- lands

CMister, tDhat's my Ghome

 What a Ffool I was to Cleave the only Am7happiness I've C/Dknown. G Em7 G Em7

 You see Gme comin', you wink yoEm7ur eye and call me CaptaGin Jim Em7

 And when I Gdon't do nothin' but to Em7walk on by you say,

  G "Baby get a load oEm7f him."

GAll I need is the Em7sea and the sky and GI know where I Em7stand

 inGstead of you hicks straight Em7out of the sticks dFeciding I ain't Ca man

CYou'll neDver understand; G

 Up Fhere I'm just a Cwhiskey bum but Am7down there I'm a Dking

 It Fsounds just like the Cangels up in heaAm7ven when they Dsus4sing:

D7"Welcome Ghome,Em7 Gwelcome homeEm7." --G Such a sight to Em7see

 insFtead of some SalvCation G/BArmy Am7sister singin'

 "C/DNearer My God to GThee."Em7 G Em7

 Now I Gknow that the Yankee wEm7hiskey is Gtakin' away my Em7mind

 and I Gknow that run is the Em7only drink Gsuitable to man-Em7kind

 And I Gknow that this tree I'm Em7under is Gshaped entirely wrEm7ong

 I Gneed to see a gEm7entle palm tree andF I won't wait toCo long

 I can fCeel that it's Dcomin' on sGtrong

 The Ffirst cold wind of Cwinter is Am7flappin' in my Dclothes

FShowin' me the Cway with the dirAm7ection that it C/Dblows.

 Welcome Ghome, Em welcome homGe, let it Em7blow. [repeat and fade]