Dont chu-knowJimmy Buffett

"Don't Chu-Know" — the early Caribbean-inflected track.

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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:49:42 -0400
Artist: Jimmy Buffett
Song: "Don't Chu-Know"
Album: Barometer Soup
The following are what I believe to be the chords to Jimmy Buffett's "Don't
Chu-Know".
D: 000323 A:002220 G:320033 C:032010
 D
                                                                             A
You can spend all your days in the grind, converting your nickels to dimes
              D                                 G
You can stuff all your pockets till they overflow,
                D                      A                    D
Don't chu-know, don't chu know, don't chu know
 D
                                                                             A
You can say you're too old to be young, you think you're to smart to be dumb
             D                                                           G
But the well-seasoned pro knows how long he can go,
                D                     A                     D
Don't chu-know, don't chu-know, don't chu know
               G                                             D
You can sing ev'ry song that's been sung, conquer the moon and the sun
         G                                                               A
But if you ask me, it's all both been said and been done
                 D
                                                                      A
We're just recycled hist'ry machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans
             D                               G
It's the unanswered question in each one of us,
                D                     A                     D
Don't chu-know, don't chu-know, don't chu-know
        C                                             G
                                                  D
The more we learn the less we know, what you keep is what you can't let go
  C                                    G
                                                   D
Take it fast or take it slow, just one way for you to go, don't chu-know
(Let's go now)
               G                                             D
You can sing ev'ry song that's been sung, conquer the moon and the sun
          G                                                        A
But if you ask me, it's not in the race that you run
             D
                                                                             A
It's that outcast in each one of us, who gets the girl who is too glamorous
                  D                               G
There's no one to decieve it's just all make-believe
                D                     A                     D
Don't chu-know, don't chu-know, don't chu-know
                 D                    A                     D
Don't chu-know, don't chu know, don't chu know
                D                     A                      D
Don't chu-know, don't chu-know, don't chu-know
Enjoy!
Bill Schofield (and Caroline)

Знаете ли вы, что...

  • From the early Buffett catalogue. The Caribbean idiom in the title — the "chu-know" that is both "don't you know" and an invitation to understand something obvious. Buffett absorbing the patois of the islands he was making his spiritual home.