Jimmy Buffett – Earls Dead - Cadillac For Sale (Guitar)

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Note: No capo, transpose down, if you need to add a capo. [Intro] A E A E A E A E [Chorus 1]
A      E    B            E
Earl’s dead Cadillac for sale

   A        E               B       E
An Eldorado sits out on the Tamiami Trail

A           E          B               C#m   B
Sign on the windshield tells the whole tale

A      E    Dadd2/F#       E
Earl’s dead - Cadillac for sale
[Verse 1]
         B
He was a circus man when they first met

       A                   E
He was fired from a cannon into a net

        B
Yea the money was good he always hit the bullseye

 A                                  E
Savin’ for the car one day he would buy

   B
No he wasn’t thinking of some average ride

   A                     E
A Human Cannonball has a lot pride

          B
If you’re gonna live large you need a hydramatic

    A             Am                  B
Eldorado Biarritz  for this wild acro-batic
[Chorus 2]
      A       E            B      E
And Earl’s is red with shark-like fins

       A         E            B          E
And that’s where this little love tale begins

    A         E              B      C#m     B
The rear view mirror puts it all in scale

A      E    Dadd2/F#       E
Earl’s dead - Cadillac for sale
[Verse 2]
           B
She was an Everglades Girl partly Seminole

        A                     E
With an urge for going and a wanderin' soul

       B
With a name like Moonvine she knew she’d never stay

         A                                      E
But that handsome human bullet stole her heart away

         B
It was a Saturday night after the midnight show

        A                          E
She was staring at the car when he said, “hello.”

       B
Didn’t take too much to move her off the reservation

       A                   Am                       B
Just a good looking boy     with the right trans-portation
[Chorus 3]
        A       E    B                  E
And now Earl is wed, Moonvine’s got her veil

        A           E               B       E
They're towin' that cannon down the Tamiami trail

A            E       B         C#m     B
He’s got the talent, she’s got brains

A        E        Dadd2/F#                 E
Earl and Moonvine - left the land of sugar cane
[Bridge 1]
        C#m
So they drove down to Panama and back up to Maine

      E
Had so much fun, hell, they did it again

         C#m
Crossing cities off the map as they shot down the road

        D                                   B/D#     B
Knowing towin' a cannon,  things could ex - plode {explode)
[Instrumental] A E B E A E B E A E B C#m B A E Dadd2/F# E [Bridge 2]
      C#m
Now a Cadillac was always an Elvis thing

 E
Polished chrome and gold it was the birth of bling

     C#m
They came with personality, they made you a star

    D
God may have made the earth,

                  B/D#     E
but man made that c - ar
[Verse 3]
    B
Now all the way back to the time of James Dean

  A                       E
Car crash songs chewed up heroes and machines

B
Sick minds, stop signs and uncontrolled swerves

    A                                      E
But Earl and his Caddy could handle killer curves

            B
So when the big top folded Earl took his last ride

         A                           E
Moonvine kissed her boy goodbye, his exit had arrived

    B
She shot his ashes ‘cross the gulf from that ancient rusty gun

A                              E
Nomads know   when the show is done
[Chorus 4]
    A      E             B    E
And Earl’s dead he’s been air mailed

         A        E              B       E
And that Eldorado waiting on the Tamiami trail

         A               E         B              C#m     B
For some shameless enter-tainer to blow in like a gale

A      E    Dadd2/F#       E
Earl’s dead – Cadillac for sale

A/E    E       A/E    E
Earl’s Dead    Earl’s dead

A/E    E       A/E    E
Ooh....        A   -  men