Guy Clark – The Ballad Of Laverne And Captain Flint (Guitar)

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Here comes Martha runnin' down the pier

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Lord it looks like Captain Flint is here

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You get the bow,  I get the stern

A                       D    A
Lord would you look at that Laverne

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Flint's got shrimp from the deep blue sea.

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and buckets of fish for you and me

 E   E6  (shuffle)
But Old Flint's boat is fine and she's called the Miss-Inclined

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And there's no home port painted on her stern

 E  E6  (shuffle) 
And they say she's like a ghost up and down that Texas coast

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But you saw home didn't you Laverne?

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Daddy says Flint is a weird old bird

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And what's more I have heard

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That his nets are charmed by a woman who knew

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How to work that Louisiana voo-doo

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Laverne get away from that boat you hear

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your mama don't want you hangin' round here

 E   E6  (shuffle)
But Old Flint's boat is fine and she's called the Miss-Inclined

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And there's no home port painted on her stern

 E  E6  (shuffle) 
And they say she's like a ghost up and down that Texas coast

                   B7             E  F#m  E  F#m
But you saw home didn't you Laverne?

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Martha, Martha won't you tell me please

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That it's not Laverne that I see

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There on the deck of the Miss-Inclined

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With Captain Flint I must be blind

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Laverne girl what's the matter with you

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Old Captain Flint put a spell on you

 E   E6  (shuffle)
But Old Flint's boat is fine and she's called the Miss-Inclined

                         B7              E   F#m
And there's no home port painted on her stern

 E  E6  (shuffle) 
And they say she's like a ghost up and down that Texas coast

                   B7             E  F#m  E  F#m
But you saw home didn't you Laverne?

 E   E6  (shuffle)
But Old Flint's boat is fine and she's called the Miss-Inclined

                         B7              E   F#m
And there's no home port painted on her stern

 E  E6  (shuffle) 
And they say she's like a ghost up and down that Texas coast

                   B7             E  F#m  E  F#m
But you saw home didn't you Laverne?