Palace Music - West Palm Beach

      [Verse 1]
 Bb                              Ab
I can't get the sand out of my shoes
 Ab                      Gm                  Bb
This being in Florida's done a number on my blues
 Bb                               Ab
Just the way the women walk round here
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Its plain to see the way the sand and the sea have done a number on me
 Ab                        E#                             Bb
And the sky is threatening black and gray and the sun is a festering red
 Ab                        E#                             Bb
And her head is claiming her stats ; she ain't yet risen from bed
 Ab                        E#                             Bb
So breakfast again delayed, postponed, I won't be fed

 [Verse 2]
 Bb                              Ab
The surf has swallowed him up, he's a memory now
 Ab                      Gm                  Bb
And the water's warmer than it has been in weeks
 Bb                               Ab
Grandma lives just down the road, she's making supper for me tonight
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She's been nice to me since '73 when her sun lost his lights
 Ab                        E#                             Bb
And now his ghost is a rising host above the briny blur
 Ab                        E#                             Bb
I would that soon some maid would swoon and his soul would capture her
 Ab                        E#                             Bb
He's still a fine kid, what with all that he did, he's a fan of mine

 [Verse 3]
 Bb                              Ab
I wasn't planning to spend so long in town
 Ab                      Gm                  Bb
But the break in the weather has got the partner down
 Bb                              Ab
She won't get out, she's shotgun, seems she's sewn to the seat
 Ab                      Gm                  Bb
It's a dirty old trick that I've yet to lick and she's yet to beat
 Ab                        E#                             Bb
You can see it in her eyes, she was born unwise, she was born for me
 Ab                        E#                             Bb
If she mourns too long I'll know something's wrong and I'll leave her be
 Ab                        E#                             Bb
You can tell by his shoes he was born to lose, he was born for me