Chords for Bertie Higgins - "Florida"

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_ _ _ _ _ Tell me about my great-grandfather mom you mean Tom Goethe yes, ma'am _
Well your grandmother his daughter told me that when he was 16 years old he joined the
Calvary in the Civil War
_ _ so after the Civil War was over he boarded the train in Atlanta and
He went as far as Ocala where was the end of the tracks?
He got out of the train struck out for Bayport
_ Which was about 80 miles on the west coast of Florida?
So some men were in the woods there from Bayport, and they found him laying there almost dead from the lack of water
Well, they put him in a buck board and took him into Bayport and nursed him back to life
And he decided to stay there and he fell in love with a girl
Elizabeth from Georgia, and they built their homestead and had a family to feed the baby
They used to have to milk the wild cows because that's all it was
_ He worked for the Likes Brothers
They used to have a pencil factory and he worked for Likes Brothers
And then he fished their children all left spent their old age and passed away
_ But they poured up there.
I went up there about [Em] three years ago
Except for a big long pier [B] out there Bayport's just about the same
Wait till the Yankees found those good old fishing spots
_ _ _ Birdie the only thing permanent _ is change _ _ _ _
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_ on the subway [Dm] late last night [G] a rigid picture postcard [B] from [C] paradise
[F] the one with the palm [C] trees [Dm] and the _ _
Lights
softly laying on [G] the bed _
[Dm] [C] I
Read what you said you [Dm] said wish you were here.
[G] It's winter up there [B] here.
It's [C] summer all year
[F] So I'm spending some sunshine with this souvenir _
[Dm] To keep you warm while [G] you're away _
[C] Stayed on the sea, [F] I should pray for me
[G] Show me my way back [Am] to the sea _
_ [F] Baby's been waiting [Dm] in the sea for me
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_ [C] _ The _ [F] _ _ [C] _
_ [G] brightest of blue [Am] in my treasure chest [F] the flower
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Hard [Dm] life when the island you're [G] on
discovered with snow
[B] _ [C] Steel and stone [F] where the natives are [C] restless [Dm] all night long
_ the [G] jungle never sleeps
_ [C] In dreams of golden [G] days standing in the sun
With the dollars you raise [C] for the sandy ones
[F] And when you're making [C] waves you just haven't [Dm] fun
Make it love out on the [G] beach
_ _ _ [C] Stayed on the sea, [F] I should pray [C] for me
[G] Show me my way back [Am] to the sea
_ _ [F] Baby's been [C] waiting [Dm] in the sea _ for me _ _ [G] _ She's [C] my _ _
[F] She's my old key West [G] the brightest [A] of [G] blue [Am] in my treasure chest
[F] the flower that _ [Dm] In [G] _ [C] Florida _ _
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_ [G] Florida Florida
[Em] Go back to the bushes and [F] fill them
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Florida
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[F] Florida
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[G] Florida Florida
[Em] Florida
Go down the bush and make them [F] love
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Florida [C] _ _ _ _ Florida [F] Florida
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[G] Florida
_ _ [Em] Florida
Back down the bush and fill [Dm] them
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