Backbay chords by Lobo

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Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
Out of  (G major) 
work I took a job as a
F 
 (F major) Hand on a boat
C 
G 
In a town  (C major) called  (G major) Matlache
On my first day off I was
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 (F major) Sitting drinking beer
C 
G 
 (C major) At a bar called the dock of the bay  (G major) 

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Verse 2

When in walked a woman

That every man eyed

But her eyes stayed right on me

The guy next to me he

Whispered real low

There's more to her than you can see

Verse 3
G 
F 
She comes from the  (G major) back bay  (F major) 
C 
G 
Better stay  (C major) away  (G major) 
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She lives up on the back bay  (F major) 
C 
And then he moved  (C major) on away
G 
F 
C 
 (G major)  (F major)  (C major) 

Verse 4
G 
 (G major) 
Well she came and sat down
F 
And the  (F major) hours flew by
C 
G 
And the beer  (C major) flowed just like the tide  (G major) 
The sun went down and
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the moon  (F major) came up
C 
G 
And there was  (C major) fire in her eyes  (G major) 

Verse 5
F 
She  (F major) took me for a ride in
G 
the white  (G major) moonlight
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C 
G 
C 
G 
In a  (F major) boat like I've  (C major) never seen  (G major)  (C major)  (G major) 
F 
G 
As the bay  (F major) flew by the sky  (G major) was alive
C 
I was  (C major) seeing things that I've
never seen
D 
 (D major) 

Verse 6
She said you're going to
G 
F 
the  (G major) back bay  (F major) 
C 
G 
You're gonna see  (C major) my ways  (G major) 
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Cause there's magic on the back bay  (F major) 
C 
You might even  (C major) want to stay
G 
 (G major) 

Interlude 1

Verse 7
G 
Well I  (G major) woke in the morning to
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Her  (F major) house boat rocking
C 
G 
 (C major) Eye to eye with an old brown hound  (G major) 
There was fresh mullet frying
And strange birds crying
C 
G 
 (C major) And no one else for miles  (G major) around

Verse 8
F 
I saw  (F major) her standing there with
G 
The breeze  (G major) in her hair
F 
C 
G 
I knew I never  (F major) wanted  (C major) to leave  (G major) 
F 
I saw all my things  (F major) around I
G 
Knew she'd  (G major) been back into town
C 
D 
And already  (C major) mad the move for me  (D major) 

Verse 9
D 
 (D major) She said you're moving to
G 
F 
the  (G major) back bay  (F major) 
C 
You're gonna see  (C major) my ways
G 
F 
 (G major) You're gonna love it on the back bay  (F major) 
C 
G 
C 
G 
F 
And you're al (C major) ways gonna  (G major)  (C major)  (G major)  (F major) 
C 
G 
 (C major)  (G major) stay

Outro 1
G 
F 
C 
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 (G major)  (F major)  (C major)  (G major) 
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C 
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 (F major)  (C major)  (G major) 
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C 
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 (F major)  (C major)  (G major) 
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 (F major)  (C major) 