Key West Intermezzo chords by 
John Mellencamp 
Key: Gb major•
Verse 1
F#
G#m
F#
B
F#
B
F#
In
a hand painted night,
me and Gypsy Scotty are partners
At the Hotel Flamingo,
G#m
wearin black market shoes
This loud Cuban band is
F#
crucifying John Lennon
G#m
No one wants to be lonely,
F#
B
no one wants to sing the blues
Verse 2
F#
She's perched like a parrot
C#
F#
B
on his tuxedo shoulder
F#
Christ, what's she doing with him
she could be dancing with me
G#m
She stirs the ice in her glass
F#
with her elegant finger
G#m
I want to be what she's drinking,
F#
yeah I just want to be
Verse 3
B
F#
I saw you first
G#m
I'm the first one tonight
F#
B
F#
I saw you first
G#m
F#
B
Don't that give me the right
F#
To move around in your heart
G#m
C#sus4
Everyone was look in
C#
But I saw you first
Interlude 1
F#
B
F#
Verse 4
F#
On a moon spattered road
in her parrot rebozo
Gypsy Scotty is driving his
big long yellow car
G#m
She flies like a bird over his
F#
G#m
shoulder
Se whispers in his ear, boy,
F#
you are my star
Verse 5
B
F#
But I saw you first
G#m
I'm the first one tonight
F#
B
F#
Yes I saw you first
G#m
F#
B
Don't that give me the right
F#
G#m
To move around in your heart
C#sus4
C#
Everyone was look in'
Interlude 2
C#
F#
C#
F#
C#
F#
C#
F#
Verse 6
F#
In the bone colored dawn,
C#
F#
me and Gypsy Scotty are singin'
C#
The radio is play in,
F#
C#
F#
she left her shoes out in the back
C#
F#
C#
G#m
He tells me a story about
F#
G#m
some girl he knows in Kentuck y
He just made that story up,
there ain't no girl like that
F#
Verse 7
B
F#
But I saw you first
G#m
F#
B
I'm the first one to night
F#
Yes I saw you first
G#m
F#
B
Don't that give me the right
F#
G#m
To move around in your heart
F#
G#m
F#
Everyone was lookin
B
F#
But I saw you first
Outro 1
I saw you first
F#
B
F#
B
F#
G#m
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
F#
F#
TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# G#m B C# C#sus4
F#
G#m
B
C#
C#sus4
Capo: 4
Transpose: 0
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