Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 22:26:37 -0800
From: kellycox@znet.com (Kelly Cox)
If I Had a Boat
Lyle Lovett
This is my take on the song; a fairly pared-down version without some of
the fancier embellishments. Corrections are welcome!
I wrote this out in 10 pt. Courier, so it might help you to view it the same.
Chords:
string eadGBE
G6 320030
Csus2 x30030
G/B x20030
Em7 002030
Dsus2/F 200230
Capo 9 (I play capo 7 `cuz I can`t sing up where Lyle does)
Intro:
G6 Csus2 G/B G6
------0---------|------0---------|0-------0-------|------0---------|
----------3-----|----------3-----|--3-------3-----|----------3-----|
--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|------0-------3-|--0-----------0-|
----------------|----------------|----0-------0---|----------------|
----2-------2---|----2-------2---|3-------2-------|----2-------2---|
3-------3-------|3-------3-------|----------------|3-------3-------|
repeat
then this little bit right before the chorus starts:
----------0-----|----------0-----|
----3-----------|----3-----------|
----0---------0-|----0---------0-|
----0-----------|----0-----------|
----2-------2---|----2-------2---|
3-------3-------|3-------3-------|
Chorus:
Csus2 G/B G6 Csus2 G/B G6
0-------0-------|------0---------|0-------0-------|------0---------|
--3-------3-----|----------3-----|--3-------3-----|----------3-----|
------0-------3-|--0-----------0-|------0-------3-|--0-----------0-|
----0-------0---|----------------|----0-------0---|----------------|
3-------2-------|----2-------2---|3-------2-------|----2-------2---|
----------------|3-------3-------|----------------|3-------3-------|
And if I had a boat I`d go out on the ocean
Csus2 G/B G6 Em7 Dsus2/F
0-------0-------|------0---------|----------------|0---------------|
--3-------3-----|----------3-----|----------3-----|----------3-----|
------0-------3-|--0-----------0-|------0---------|-----2----------|
----0-------0---|----------------|----2-------2---|---0--------0---|
3-------2-------|----2-------2---|----------------|----------------|
----------------|3-------3-------|0-------0-------|2-------2-------|
And if I had a pony I`d ride him on my boat
Csus2 G/B G6 Csus2 G/B G6
0-------0-------|------0---------|0-------0-------|------0---------|
--3-------3-----|----------3-----|--3-------3-----|----------3-----|
------0-------3-|--0-----------0-|------0-------3-|--0-----------0-|
----0-------0---|----------------|----0-------0---|----------------|
3-------2-------|----2-------2---|3-------2-------|----2-------2---|
----------------|3-------3-------|----------------|3-------3-------|
And we could all together go out on the ocean
Csus2 Dsus2/F G6
0-------0-------|0---------------|------0---------|------0---------|
--3-------3-----|----------3-----|----------3-----|----------3-----|
------0-------3-|-----2----------|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|
----0-------0---|---0--------0---|----------------|----------------|
3-------3-------|----------------|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|
----------------|2-------2-------|3-------3-------|3-------3-------|
me upon my pony on my boat
Csus2 G/B G6 Csus2 G/B G6
Now the mystery masked man was smarter, he got himself a Tonto
Csus2 Em7 Dsus2/F
`Cause Tonto did the dirty work for free
Csus2 G/B G6 Csus2 G/B G6
But Tonto he was smarter, and one day said Kemosabe,
Csus2 Em7 Dsus2/F G6
Kiss my ass, I bought a boat, I`m going out to sea
Chorus
Now if I were Roy Rogers, I`d sure enough be single,
Couldn`t bring myself to marryin` no Dale,
Well it`d just be me and Trigger, we`d go riding through them movies,
And we`d buy a boat and on the sea we`d sail.
Chorus
Now if I were like lightning, I wouldn`t need no sneakers,
Well I`d come and go whenever I did please,
And I`d scare `em by the shade tree, and I`d scare `em by the light pole,
But I would not scare my pony on my boat out on the sea.
Chorus
Kelly Cox
kellycox@znet.com
A `52 Vincent and a red-headed girl.. -Richard Thompson
