Chords for Everybody's Got A Cousin In Miami

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Hey Jimmy, you know anybody in Miami that can give me a passport real quick?
_ _ [F] Oh yeah, I got a cousin up there, he knows everything about [Bb] everything.
_ Let's see if I got his number here [F] somewhere.
No, _ _ he works out of [Bb] a pay phone.
Oh, I got it [Gm] here.
Okay.
[F] Yeah, he's an international investor, [Bb] whatever that is.
_ _ [F] Yeah, everybody's got a cousin in Miami.
_ _ Here [Bb] we go. _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] It was 90 [Cm] miles to freedom [F] but they took the risk.
[Bb] Though the ocean was on motion and the wind was brisk,
[F] the deadly [Cm] gunboats never saw them in the pale moonlight.
[Bb] They were off from Kio-A, so by the dawn's early light,
[F] the gringo in the garden called the customs man.
They answered all his questions, were allowed to land.
[F] The lady shared a hairbrush and their husbands had a Coke
[Bb] and they were taken [C] up to meet with their kinfolk.
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Everybody's got a cousin in [Bb] Miami.
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Everybody understands _ the [Bb] impromptu.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Dancing in the heat to the beat that turns your [Bb] clothing clappy.
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Everybody needs [Cm] to have their dream [Bb] come true.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] In a third world jungle not so far away [Bb] lives a natural drummer
with a dream to play.
[F] He's the brother of the lizard and the flying fish,
but [Bb] he's enchanted by the pictures from the satellite dish.
[F] So his mama [Cm] packs his bag, knots his red necktie,
[Bb] sends him north to her relations with a kiss goodbye.
[F] He's bewildered by the plane ride and the immigration line
[Bb] until he sees his Christian name upon a cardboard sign.
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Everybody's got a cousin in [Bb] Miami.
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Everybody is an _ aborigine.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Dancing in the heat to the beat that turns your clothing [Bb] clappy.
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Everybody wants [Cm] to win that [Bb] lottery. _
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_ And the winning numbers are
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_ _ 7, 6, _ [Bb] 5, _ [Eb] 3, 7, 9.
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_ [C] _ Close.
So [Bb] close.
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History [Bb] lesson.
History lesson.
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It's hard [F] to believe the city started [Bb] as a trading post.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] Home to the [F] Seminole Pirate and _ [Bb] Pioneer.
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Between the river of grass and the old [F] Mosquito Coast.
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Before the railroad [Am] claimed the southernmost [F] frontier.
_ _ _ _ I am umbilically connected to the temperance zone.
It [Bb] brought me life, it brought me love I never [Gm] have outgrown.
[F] Brought me one too many nights along that Biscayne shore.
[Bb] And one too many mornings [G] in the Grove Drug Store.
[F] In one way or the other we're all refugees.
Living [Bb] out this easy life below the Banyan trees.
[C] Smoothing off the rougher edges of the [F] culture clash.
We got a [Bb] style, we got a look, we got that old Kardash.
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Everybody's got a cousin in [Bb] Miami.
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Everybody understands the _ [Bb] impromptu.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Dancing [Cm] in the heat of the beat, turn your clothing [Bb] _
flaming.
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Everybody needs to have a dream [Bb] come true.
_ I do, I do.
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_ _ _ [G] _ Let's [Bb] take it down boys, _ _ [Dm] _ down [F] south. _
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_ Those little attitudes.
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_ _ _ Ya ya, ya [F] ya. _
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_ _ _ [G] Thank you robot.
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[Cm] Everybody's got a cousin in [Bb] Miami.
Everybody's got a [Gm] cousin in [F] Miami.
[Cm] Everybody is an _ aborigine.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Dancing in the heat of the beat, turn your clothing [Bb] flaming.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Under [Cm] the stars in the bars down [Bb] by the sea.
_ _ Come meet [F] now, everybody's got their cousin in [Bb] Miami.
Everybody's got a cousin [F] in Miami.
Everybody has to have that _ [Bb] impromptu.
What are we doing now?
_ _ _ [F] Dancing in the heat of the beat, turn your clothing [Bb] flaming.
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Everybody needs to have a dream [Bb] come true.
_ I do, I do.
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I had this dream the other day.
_ [Bb] I was down on the equator.
_ [Eb] I didn't know whether I was up [F] or down.
I couldn't tell the difference.
_ [G] It was hot, [Bb] and we were rocking.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [F] And the coral reapers gathered around me and they said,
[Bb] we want to raise or we going to quit.
[Eb] _ _ _ [F] And that's when I woke up.
_ _ [Gm] _ So [Bb] play boys, play.
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