Chords for Son of a Sailor by Jimmy Buffett guitar lesson by Dave the Guitar Guy

Hi, this is Dave the guitar guy come to you from the south side [Am] of Chicago
It's just about [A] Christmas time.
So I'd like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas
The song we're going to do today is [C] son of a sailor by Jimmy Buffett _
Well, it's cold weather.
Maybe we could use [F] a little bit of violin music in our [D] souls
But [N] anyway, I'm going to show you the chords that we're going to use for the song
There's not many of [A] them.
It's pretty simple
The first chord he starts in is G major
You guys probably already know G major pretty well.
The next one will be F [C] major
_ [Dm] And that's how you finger the [B] F major chord
the [C] _
[Dm] next one is C major and _ _ _ _
[B] lastly
D major
_ Okay
[N] _ _ so _ I
listen to several versions of the song and
He plays it differently just about every one of them so I'm not going to start with the
original
beginning of the other
_ [A] Recorded version on the album.
I'm just going to wing it here and I'm going to play G this way
instead [G] of
Like this or like that.
I'm going to use my pinky and _
_ These fingers here to freeze up my first finger
Because [Fm] what we want to do it's a little trick that they do [B] in a lot of country music
As I'll switch between a G and [F] a C and back again, and you'll see what I mean like [G] this _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So what you're doing is you're keeping
[B] _ These two [F] fingers in your G position and you're just switching these two to where [G] a C chord would be _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] So you're switching back and forth from G to C, but [D] it's got a neat little sound to it
[C] So we'll start the introduction and [N] see how I do at this
_ I love Jimmy Buffett and I'm very familiar with the song.
However, it's just recently where I learned to play it
So so here we go.
We're going to start in G
[G] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] _
Yeah
[G] _ [C] _ _ _ Hold that thing
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ That's the son of the son of a _ sailor.
[F] I
Went out on the [C] sea for [G] adventure
_ [C] It's bad interview [G] the captain crew [D] like a man just released [G] from danger
_ As a dreamer dreams a traveling man.
[F] I chopped up [G] many a mile
_ [C] Read dozens of books [G] about heroes and crooks and I've [D] learned much from both of their style _
_ [F] son of a son
[C] son of a son
son of a son
[G] _ sailor
_ [F] son of a gun
[C] last _ time one step ahead [G] of the jailer _ _
Okay, so you get the idea basically
So for the the verse portion he starts in G
As a son of a son of the sailor then he goes to half I [F] went out on the [C] sea
for [G] adventure to G back to [C] sea
expanding the view [G] back to G captain and crew now the D like [D] a man just released from [G] danger
_ Okay, so and he keeps doing that for the verse portion, but then when he gets to
the chorus it [A] is he starts an F and [F] goes
Son of a son [G] the [C] sea son of a son.
Well, that's the
_ _ [G] G _ _ _
[F] son of a gun
[C] No last time one step ahead of [G] the jailer _ _
And use and [Cm] use that little trick liberally throughout the song [F] where I'm talking about where he [G] goes _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ Son
[G] _ [C] _ _
Son
Son of a [G] son of a sailor
_ _ [F] You'll never [C] gun, you know the last time one step ahead [G] of the _ jailer
_ okay, and you can [G#] get the rest of the words online [G] and that is the whole song there is no
Break in there where he switches chords or anything like that.
So you have the [C] song
_ Gcd and F are the only chords in the [A] song?
I hope it [F#] helped at all if anybody has any questions, of [E] course
Please write me if it's a long question write me personally and I swear to God I will answer you as soon as I can
Again, Merry Christmas to you all and I hope you have a great new year
[F] Peace out from David guitar guy on [B] the south side of Chicago.
Bye _ _ _