Chords for Fruitcakes Jimmy Buffett

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You know, I was talking to my friend Desdemona the other day.
She runs a space station and bake shop down near Boone County.
She told me that human beings are flawed individuals. _
_ The cosmic _ bakers took us out of the [D] oven a little [G] too early.
And that's the reason we're as crazy as we are.
And I believe it.
Take, for example, when you go to the movies these days.
_ You know, they try to sell you this jumbo drink, eight extra [A] ounces of watered [G] down
sherry coke for an extra 25 cents.
I don't want it.
I don't want that much organization in my life.
I don't want other people thinking for me.
I want a Junior Mints.
Where do Junior Mints go in the movies?
I don't want a 12 pound Nestle scrunch for $25.
_ I _ _ want Junior Mints.
_ We need more fruitcakes in this world. _ _
Less bakers.
We need people that care.
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Exhale.
[D] I [G] don't want to take [C] it anymore.
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[D] Fruitcakes [G] in the kitchen.
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[D] Fruitcakes [G] on the street.
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Strutting [D] naked.
Through [G] the crosswalk [C] in the [G] middle of the week.
Had [C]
baked [D] cookies [G] in the oven.
Had [C] baked [D] people [G] on the bus.
_ [C] They're gonna [D] _ [G] get fruitcake left [C] in [D] every one [G] of us.
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[D] Paradise.
_ [G] La-bam.
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[D] Paradise.
Take [G] a look around.
[C] I was out [D] in _ [G] California where I [D] hear they have it [G] all.
_ [C] They got [D] rice, [G] lard, mudslides.
They [C] got [D] sushi [G] in the mall.
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Water [D] bars.
[G] _ Rotten sores.
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[D] Chinese [G] modern lust.
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[D] Shaking big [G] life with the quake.
[C] The [D] secret's in [G] the crust.
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[D] Fruitcakes [G] in the kitchen.
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[D] Fruitcakes on [G] the street.
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Strutting [D] naked.
Through [G] the crosswalk in [C] the middle [D] of [G] the week.
Had [C] baked [D] cookies in [G] the oven.
Had [C] baked [D] people on [G] the bus.
They're gonna [C] _
_ [D] _ [G] get fruitcake left in every one of us. _ _
[D] Speaking of fruitcakes, how about the government?
[C] Your tax [D] dollars at [G] work.
_ _ [C] We lost [D] our [G] Martian rocket ship.
[C] The high [D]-paid spokesman [G] said.
_ [C] Looks like [D] that [G] silly rocket ship [C] has lost [D] its foam [G]-shaped head.
_ [C] We spent [D] 90 trillion dollars.
Time to get a look at Mars.
I [C] hear the [D] universe [G] collapse.
Ringing [C]
[D] out among [G] the stars.
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_ [D] Caping [G] the galaxy.
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[D] Fruitcakes on [G] the earth.
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Strutting naked [D] _ [G] towards eternity.
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Leaving that wasteland.
[G] _ Had [C] baked [D] cookies in [G] the oven.
Had [C] baked [D] people _ [G] _ _ on the bus.
[C] They're gonna [D] get [G] _ fruitcake left [C] in [E] every one [G] of us.
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Religion.
[D] _ _ [G] _ Religion.
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_ [D] There's a [G] thin line between Saturday [C] night and Sunday [D] morning.
_ [G] Here we go [C] now.
_ [D] _ [G] All right, all the boys.
Mea culpa, mea [Dm] culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Mea culpa, [G] mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. _
_ [D] Where's the church?
[G] Who took the people?
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Religion's in the hands of [G] some crazy-ass people.
Television preachers [Em] with bad hair and dimples.
[C] The goddarnest truth [G] is it's not that simple.
[C] It's the Buddhist in [D] you.
It's [G] the pagan in me.
[C] It's the Muslim [E] in him.
[G] She's Catholic, ain't she?
[C] It's that Barnagan [D] look.
It's [G] the wasp in the Jew.
[C] Tell me what's [G] going on.
I ain't got a clue.
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_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] Now here [D] comes the big [G] ones.
_ _ [C] Relationships.
[D] We all [G] got them.
We all [C] want them.
[D] What do we [G] do with them?
Here we go, [C] I'll tell you.
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ She said you got New York fair share.
Now cop [D] up half [G] the rent.
_ [C] I [D] treat my body like a [G] temple.
_ [C] You treat [D] yours [G] like ten.
_ [C] But the right [D] word [G] has the right dime.
[C] Hey, [D] give me a [G] little hug.
_ [C] That's the [D] difference [G] between lightning and [C] a harmless [D] _ [G] lightning bug.
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[D] Fruitcake [G] in the kitchen.
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[D] Fruitcake [G] on the street.
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Stretching [D] naked.
[G] Food crosswalk in [C]
the [G] middle of the week.
Half [C] baked [D] cookies [G] in the oven.
Half [C] baked people [D] _ [G] on the bus.
_ [C] There's a [D] little bit [G] of fruitcake left [C] in [D] every one [G] of us.
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The [D] future.
[G] _ _ Captain's log, [C]
star date, [D] 2000 [G] and something.
We're [C] seven years [G] from the millennium.
_ [C] That's a [D] science fiction [G] fact.
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[D] Stanley Kubrick [G] and his buddy Hal.
[C] Now don't [Dm] look that [G] abstract.
_ [C] So I put on [G] my Bob Marley tape [C] and practice [G] what I preach.
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Get your [G] lost in the reggae mon [C] as I [D] walk along the [Bm] beach.
_ [C] Santa [D] Cruz, Miami, [G] and Santa Fe [C] really [D] is the [G] only way.
[C] It's [D] a jungle out [G] there, kiddies.
Have a very [D] fruitful [G] _ [A] day.
Hey, [C] _
[D] cakes in [G] the kitchen.
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Cake [D] on [G] the street.
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Stretching [D] naked.
[G] Food [D] crosswalk in [C] the [D] middle of [G] the week.
Half [C] baked [D] cookies [G] in the oven.
Half [C] baked [D] people [G] on the bus.
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There's [D] a little [G] bit of fruitcake left [C] in [D] every one [G] of us.
That's right.
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[G] You too.
Yeah, those [C] crumbs are spread all [D] around [G] this universe.
_ I've seen fruitcakes.
I saw this guy in Santa Monica.
Roller skate naked through the crosswalk.
Down in New Orleans, in the [C] French market, there are fruitcakes [G] like you cannot believe.
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New [G] York, forget it.
Fruitcake city.
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_ [G] Down in Harlem, we got fruitcakes.
[C] _
_ [G] Spread them crumbs around.
That's [C] right.
We want [G] them around.
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_ _ [G] Keep baking, baby.
Keep baking.
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