Well I was wingin' on a big bird into Amsterdam
Just to get myself a can of duty free Spam
Yeah, they got that there they got a lot of other good things, too
And it was "Hi!", buy, fly and we were back on the 8:02

Well we were whippin' through time zones, talkin' on the cell phones
Tryin' to find a concierge who knows which way the wind blows
Carryin' our own bags, sleeping in a plastic chair
Get out your passport, honey 'cause we gotta get back in the air

Well we put our foreign language lessons to the test
When we landed, had a fest in Bucharest
Then on to Iasi for a handful of wooden pipes
It was a travellin' time - forty days and thirty-nine nights

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Well we were on a little island called San Antone
but the one you're thinkin' of is not the one I've known
It was Ibiza, Spain they got a lot of good beaches there
I'll always picture my woman with the water drippin' offa her hair

Lemme tell ya you ain't seen your baby, son
Till you seen her in the Mediter-Ranean sun
We had a full British Breakfast just around 11 o'clock
Then it was back to California for Quake and the Aftershocks

San Francisco - where else would I wanna go?
Golden Gate bridge in the fog out the window
Pier 39 Sea Lions and a penny arcade
and I didn't even mention seeing Otis, Bird, Kris, and Dave - Hello!

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You know we had to go to Memphis for the Memphis thing
Hadda find what I could that was left of The King
Yeah, Elvis is my man. I took a picture on the Lisa Marie
Never had an airplane appeared so appealing to me

I been to Vegas, Arizona, and Maryland
New York, New York City, Carolina and
you never can tell where we're gonna wanna go to next
Can't forget Duluth, Kansas City and the great Midwest

Well I been all around the world except for some of the parts
But now it's time to go back home to where I keep my heart
It's all Minnesota, baby! Greatest state in the USA
As much as I love to go, I'll never be gone to stay
As much as I love to go, I'll never be gone to stay
As much as I love to go, I'll never be gone to stay

Shotgun Johnson & the Mississippi Seven Lyrics Index
Shotgun Johnson & the Mississippi Seven Index

Chords:

Intro: D then A then start playing rhythm on D

Verses are 12 bar blues. The 12 bars, in detail, are:
D D D D G G D D A G D A

At the end, we tag it twice. We don't go to the final A, we hold the D for one more measure then play:

A G D D
A G stop! drum solo, cue back in on D

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