by Jimmy Buffet

By: jimmy buffett
1977
Nibblin on sponge cake
Watchin the sun bake
All of those tourists covered with oil
Strummin my six-string
On my front porch swing
Smell those shrimp they’re beginnin to boil

Chorus:
Wastin away again in margaritaville
Searching for my […]

by Townes Van Zandt

Living on the road my friend
Was gonna keep you free and clean
Now you wear your skin like iron
Your breath’s as hard as kerosene
You weren’t your mama’s only boy
But her favorite one it seems
She began to cry when you said […]

by Steve Goodman

The Dutchman’s not the kind of man
Who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam
That holds his dreams in,
But that’s a secret that only Margaret knows.

When Amsterdam is golden in the summer,
Margaret brings him breakfast,
She believes him.
He thinks the tulips […]

by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Yesterday,
All my troubles seemed so far away,
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
I’m not half the man I used to be,
There’s a shadow hanging over me,
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why […]

by Gordon Lightfoot

(I need chords to be able to cheat this one)

(F) (Am) (F) (Am)
(F) Never had much to say, he traveled a(Am)lone with no friends
(F) Like a shadowy ghost at dawn he (Am) came and he went
(F) Through the woodland (G) swiftly gliding
(Em) To […]

I played the Red River Valley
He’d sit in the kitchen and cry
Run his fingers through seventy years of livin’
And wonder, “Lord, why has every well I’ve drilled gone dry?”

We were friends, me and this old man
We’s like desperados waitin’ for a train
Desperados waitin’ for […]

by Joni Mitchell

Songwriters: Mitchell, Joni
Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star

Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams

by Paul Simon

Chorus
Cecilia, you’re breaking my heart,
You’re shaking my confidence daily.
Oh cecilia, I’m down on my knees,
I’m begging you please to come home.

Chorus

Making love in the afternoon with cecilia
Up in my bedroom,
I got up to wash my face
When […]

by Dan Fogelberg

An only child alone and wild
A cabinet maker’s son
His hands were meant for different work
And his heart was known to none
He left his home and went his lone and solitary way
And he gave to me a gift
I know I never […]

KATHY’S SONG
(Paul Simon)

Paul Simon (June, 1965)
Simon & Garfunkel (December, 1965)

I hear the drizzle of the rain
Like a memory it falls
Soft and warm continuing
Tapping on my roof and walls

And from the shelter of my mind
Through the window of my eyes
[…]

PEACEFUL EASY FEELING

I like the way your sparkling earrings lay,
against your skin, it’s so brown
and I wanna sleep with you
in the desert tonight
with a billion stars all around
’cause I gotta peaceful easy feeling
and I know you won’t let me down
’cause […]

America
by Paul Simon

“Let us be lovers we’ll marry our fortunes together.”
“I’ve got some real estate here in my bag.”
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And we walked off to look for America.
“Kathy,” I said as we boarded a Greyhound in […]

THE BOXER
by Paul Simon

I am just a poor boy, though my story’s seldom told.
I have squandered my resistance,
For a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.
All lies and jest.
Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

When I left my […]

Today, while the blossom still clings to the vine
I’ll taste your strawberries, I’ll drink your sweet wine
And a million tomorrows shall all pass away
‘Ere I forget all the joys that are mine today

Well I’ll be a dandy and I’ll be a rover
You’ll know who I am […]