Ballad Of Spider John chords by Jimmy Buffett

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The Ballad of Spider John
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By Jimmy Buffett

Intro: Am (pulloff w/ index finger)

1)
  Am        C
 "Spider John" is my ...
  D                      Am
 I'm in between freights and ...
      C        G
 if you'd share ....
  Am          C
 I know this may sound ...
    D                        Am
 but if you wait till the song is ....,
      C      G
 you might come to ....
     Am        C      D       G
 Oh, I'm old and bent and Devil sent....
     Am       C         D
 When I long ago held a ...

(Chorus:)
         Em
   Oh, I was a ...
       A7             Em      A7
   I was a motor bank stool-...
     Em              A7
   I thought I lost my blues, ...
    F         C        G
   I thought I'd found a life ...
             G        F
   But here I sit old Spider ....
   C        Am
   long, tall, ...
        G          F     C    Am
   Yes, old Spider John with a ...

2)
 Then one day I met Diamond Lill....

(repeat chorus)

3)
That is all my story....
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[This song is not published (to my knowledge). This is my own
 chord arrangement and therefore may contain errors for which I
 apologize in advance.]

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