Key: Db major•
Intro 1
Gb/Ab
Db/Ab
Ab
Gb/Db
Db
Ab7
Db
Verse 1
Db
Dbsus4
The wind is in from Africa
Absus2
Ab
Last night I couldn't sleep
Ab
Absus4
Ab
But it's really not my home
Dbsus4
Absus2
Ab
I've got beach tar on my feet
Gb
Db
And I miss my clean white linen
Ab
Absus4
Ab
and my fancy French cologne
Chorus 1
(I'll put on some silver)
Gb
Db
Oh, you're a mean old Daddy,
Ab
Db
Dbsus4
Db
but I like you
Verse 2
Db
Dbsus4
Come on down to the Mermaid Cafe
Absus2
Ab
And I will buy you a bottle of wine
Gb
Db
And we'll laugh and toast to nothing and
Ab
Absus4
Ab
Smash our empty glasses down
Absus2
Ab
A round for these friends of mine
Ab
Absus4
Ab
who Keeps me in this tourist town
Chorus 2
Ab
Db
Come on, Carey, get out your cane
(Carey, get out your cane)
(I'll put on some silver)
Gb
Db
Oh, you're a mean old Daddy,
Ab
Db
but I like you, I like you,
Dbsus4
Db
I like you, I like you
Verse 3
Db
Dbsus4
Maybe I'll go to Amsterdam
Absus2
Ab
Or maybe I'll go to Rome
Gb
Db
And rent me a grand piano and put some
Ab
Absus4
Ab
flowers 'round my room
Absus2
Ab
The night is a starry dome
Gb
Db
And they're playin' that scratchy rock and roll
Ab
Absus4
Ab
Beneath the Matala Moon
Chorus 3
Ab
Db
Dbsus4
Db
but I like you
Verse 4
Db
Dbsus4
The wind is in from Africa
Absus2
Ab
Last night I couldn't sleep
Gb
Db
Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here,
Ab
Absus4
Ab
but it's really not my home
Db
Dbsus4
Maybe it's been too long a time
Absus2
Ab
since I was scramblin' down in the street
Ab
Absus4
Ab
and that Fancy French cologne
Chorus 4
Gb
Db
We'll go to the Mermaid Cafe,
Ab
Db
Dbsus4
have fun tonight
Gb
Db
I said, oh, you're a mean old Daddy,
Ab
Db
Dbsus4
Db
but you're out of sight
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