Jimmy Buffett – Gods Own Drunk (Guitar)

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[Intro] E7 A7 E7A7 E7C7 B7 C7 B7E7 B7 [Verse]
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Well, like I explain to you all before, I ain't no drinkin' man

           A7
I tried it once and it got me highly irregular

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And I swore I'd never do it again

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But I promised my brother in-law that I'd go up watch his still
While he went in to town to vote
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  It was right up on the mountain where the map said it would be

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Friends let me tell you one thing, though

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It wasn't no ordinary still

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It stood up on that mountainside like… a huge golden opal

E7
  God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool clear evenin'

A7
  God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens

E7
  Like I explain'd to you once before I ain't no drinkin' man

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  But temptation got the best of me… and I took a slash

A7
  That yella whiskey runnin' down my throat
Like honey dew vine water and I took another slash
E7
  Took another'n an another'n an another'n

A7
  For you knew I'd downed one whole jug of that shit
7E7 And commenced to gettin' hot flashes
      A7
Goose pimples was runnin' up and down my body
And a feelin' came over me  
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Like somethin' I'd never experienced before

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It was like, like I was in love

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  In love for the first time, with anything that moved

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Animate, inanimate it didn't matter

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It's like there's a great neon sign flashin' on an' off

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In my brain sayin' "Jimmy Buffett there's a great day a comin'"

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'Cause I was drunk

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  I wasn't knee crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Youngin'

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  Commode huggin' drunk

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  I was God's own drunk… and a fearless man

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    And that's when I first saw the bear

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  He was a Kodiak lookin' fella 'bout nineteen feet tall
He rambled up over the hill expectin' me to do one of two things
A7
  Flip or fly, I didn't do either one, it hung him up

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  He started sniffin' around my body tryin' to smell fear

                   A7
But he ain't gonna smell no fear 'cause
I'm God's own drunk and a fearless man. It hung him up
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  He looked right in my eyes, and my eyes

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Was a lot redder than his was. It hung him up

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  So I approached him, I said "Uh, Mr. Bear, I love

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Every hair on your twenty-seven acre body

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  I know you got a lot of friends over there
On the other side of the hill  
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  There's ole' Rare bear, Tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear

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Really bear, Smelly the bear, Smokey the bear, Pokey the bear

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I want you to go back over there tonight
And tell them I'm feelin' right
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  You tell them I love each and every one of them
Like a brother and a sister
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  But if they give me any trouble tonight

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I'm gonna run every God damn one of them off the hill

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      He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think

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  Neither did I but bein' charitable and cautious

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Well, hell, I approached him again

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I said "Mr. Bear, You know in the eyes of the Lord

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We're both beasts when it comes right down to it

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  So I want you to be my buddy, “Buddy Bear”

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  So I took ole' buddy bear by his island size paw
And I led him over to the still
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  He's a sniffin' around that thing cause he’s smellin something good

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  I gave him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water
He downed it up right
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Looked like one of them damn bears in the circus
Sippin' sasparilly in the moonlight
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  I gave him another'n an another'n an another'n
For I knew it he downed eight of them
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And commenced to doin' the bear dance
Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a grunt  
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  It was so simple like the jitter bug, it plum evaded me

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  We worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar, and I was

E7
  Awful tired and went over to the hillside

     A7
And I laid down and went to sleep

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  Slept for four hours and dreamt me some tremulous dreams

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  Now when I woke up

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  Oh, there was God's yeller moon shinin' on the clear cool evenin'

A7
  God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens

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  My buddy the bear was a-missin'

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  Yeah.  Want to know something else friends and neighbors?

            E7
So was that still
That’s a take!