If The Phone Doesnt Ring Its Me by Jimmy Buffett, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

If The Phone Doesnt Ring Its Me

by Jimmy Buffett

Biography:

Jimmy Buffett (born December 25, 1946 in Gulf Shores, Alabama, United States) is a singer/songwriter, best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" and "Come Monday". He has a rabid, but genial, cult following known as "Parrotheads." They call the youngest members "Parakeets."

Buffett has written three No. 1 best sellers. Tales from Margaritaville and Where Is Joe Merchant? both spent over seven months on the New York Times Best Seller fiction list.

Read more on Last.fm

Other songs:

Share this tab

Four years of hard work!

This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!

#-----------------------------PLEASE NOTE-------------------------------------#
#This OLGA file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation #
#of the song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or #
#research. Remember to view this file in Courier, or other monospaced font. #
#See http://www.olga.net/faq/ for more information. #
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#

Subject: b/buffett_jimmy/if_the_phone_doesnt_ring_its_me.crd
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 14:02:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]

"If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me" by Jimmy Buffett
>From "The Last Mango in Paris" album
Submitted by Richard Burchett
======================================

I wrote the intro-melody part out in tab format. This part needs to be
played by finger-picking. The chords above the tab usually give an easy
reference to the proper positioning of the left hand while the individual
notes are played.

Intro-melody:
(C) (Em) (F) (repeat
2x)

E:----------0------------0----------------0---------1-------------------------
---

B:----------------------------3----------------3-----1---------------0--1--3--
-

G:-----------------0----------------------------------------2-----2-----------
---

D:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

A:----------3-----------------------------------------------------------------
-----

E:-----------------------------------0------------------1---------------------
----

(C) (Em) (F)

E:----------0------------0-----------------0---3------5-----------------------
--

B:-----------------------------3----------------------------------------------
-----

G:-----------------0----------------------------------------------------------
-----

D:-------------------------------------------------------3--------------------
-----

A:----------3-----------------------------------------------------------------
-----

E:-----------------------------------0----------------------------------------
-----

Verse 1:
C Em F C
There are oceans of feelings be-tween us,
Am C
currents that take us and sweep us away.
C Em F C
That's why we seldom have seen us,
Am G C
in the light of a cold hard day.
Am C
Lot's of new friends, with the same old answers,
Am G G7
open your eyes you might see,
C Em F C
if our lives were that simple we'd live in the past,
Am G C
if the phone doesn't ring, its me.

Chorus:
G C
If the phone doesn't ring, you know that it's me,
G C
I'll be out in the eye of the storm,
G C
if the phone doesn't ring, you know that I'll be,
G C
where someone can make me feel warm.
C Em F C
It's too bad we can't turn and live in the past,
Am G C-(first chord of intro)
if the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

Intro-melody: No repeats this time.

Verse 2:
C Em F
C
I've had good days and bad days and going - half - mad days,
Am C
I try to let go, but your still on my mind.
C Em F C
I've lost all the old ways, I'm searching for new ways,
Am G C
Putting it all on the line.
Am C
Lots of new friends, with the same old problems,
Am G G7
open your eyes you might see,
C Em F C
if our lives were that simple we'd live in the past,
Am G C
if the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

Repeat chorus.

Intro-melody: Play the tab part, singing these words over it. All repeats
this time.
C Em F
It's me, it's me,
C Em F
it's me, it's me,
C Em F
it's me, it's me,
C Em F
it's me, it's me.

Coda: (Slowly)
C Em F C
If it takes all our future we'll live through the past,
Am G C C/F C
if the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

That's All. Once again, this song sounds much better if you finger-pick it.
Also, it's a nice touch to add a high "g" note to the Em chords.

-Richard
Burchett

"We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer!"

-J. Buffett