Security chords by 
Tony Martin 
N/A•
Key: G major•
Verse 1
G
Let's go to Mexico.
D
G
Have you ever been to Mexico?
Ah, Mexico.
We're so lucky in America.
We have Canada,
our neighbors in the north,
and Mexico, our neighbors to the south.
So we leave here and we'll go to Mexico.
D
G
In Mexico, the folks have great peace
D
of mind and security.
G
D
That's what we want, security.
G
Ah, securidad.
D
¿Quieren ustedes? ¿Quieren?
G
Security? Si.
D
G
Come with me to Mexico.
We will fly from here to Los Angeles,
and then we will go south to San Diego.
D
And then you prepare yourself
G
for the most beautiful sight
you have ever seen
D
G
in the whole world, Tijuana.
D
G
Oh, the Tijuanas
D
look like Redding without lights.
G
D
G
D
Riba, riba, riba, riba, riba.
G
D
G
Ah, security.
D
The natives of Mexico,
G
they are very happy.
The income is not too much.
D
And besides, there is no in come tax.
G
D
So they are happy.
G
They have security.
D
G
D
G
D
G
Vamanos a Mexico.
C
Am
Security, security,
D
G
D
everybody's looking for security.
G
C
For happiness, believe you me,
Am
D
G
you've got to have security.
C
Am
Security, security,
D
G
everybody's looking for security,
C
Am
for happiness, believe you me, you've
D
I've to have security
G
Verse 2
D
G
D
G
E -E -E -E -E
Oh, senor, tonight you put in an extra E -E.
Verse 3
G
E -E
Senor, have a very small heart.
D
E -E -E -E -E
G
D
G
Senor, tomorrow you will have no part at all.
D
G
E -E -E -E
D
G
A midget that I know got
C
married and I swear
Am
D
His bride was up to here,
G
he was down to there
D
G
D
I asked him why he married
G
C
Am
someone tall as she
D
G
G
He said he wanted acres of security
C
Security, security
Am
D
G
Oh, she was a great big girl with security
D
G
For a happiness,
D
G
C
Am
believe you me,
D
G
D
G
you've to have security.
D
G
Oh, senor, he's not this funny, senor.
I guess you are looking for
D
G
security too, senor.
D
G
D
A singer has to worry
G
C
about the evil day,
Am
D
the evil day he cannot
G
D
give his voice away.
G
Annuities
D
G
C
give many singers mind of peace.
Am
D
For me the best annu
G
G
ity is Sid Charisse.
C
Am
D
She makes all of the money,
G
and I sing it away,
D
G
C
Am
for a happiness, believe in me,
D
G
D
you've got to have security.
Ah, senor,
G
you are playing the piano
so good tonight.
D
G
D
You play like in Mexico.
G
Am
G
You remind me,
D
I go there all the time
G
for my happiness.
When I close the Copacabana,
I take an airplane,
D
G
D
I fly to Mexico City.
G
Entonces, I go to Cuernavaca.
D
It's a beautiful little city.
G
D
And then I go into the mountains,
a place called...Tasco. Ah, Tasco.
G
It's where they make
D
all the nice little jewelry,
G
the cufflinks,
D
nice things people like to see.
They are happy people in Mexico,
in Tuscany.
G
And I have a friend,
D
G
I see him every year.
D
He knows I'm coming,
Am
D
he sees me coming up the road.
I holler up, amigo!
G
And he looks down
D
G
D
and he says, Lanzmanito!
G
D
G
D
This is old Mexican language, this.
But we know each other,
G
then we meet and he says, ah senor,
D
G
leave us in joy like old times
D
and he brings out the tequila.
In Mexico, the people,
G
they drink tequila, ah si.
D
G
Like in London,
D
everybody drinks the scotch.
Like in Germany, they drink the wine.
G
D
And in France, the champagne.
G
And in Spain, the wine.
D
In Mexico, the people,
they drink the tequila.
So then we have what they call
G
D
tequila cocktails.
G
D
They are called margaritas.
Yeah, they're wonderful.
They put the salt around the glass,
G
and we drink un o, dos,
D
tres, cuatro, seis, cinco.
G
D
Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, seis, cinco.
That's right.
Oh boy, I'm right.
G
I got up to six.
I made no mistake,
D
G
D
but after six is trouble.
Then I feel high and tengo mucho hombre.
G
I get very hungry.
D
And I say to my friend,
G
D
quiero comer.
says, que quiero usted a comer.
I said, I'd like some guacamole.
G
It's the avocado,
D
it's chopped up with the chili peppers
and the Tabasco sauce.
G
It's very good.
D
G
And then I have a roscampoio.
D
Roscampoio, the chicken and the rice.
G
D
Then I have, I have enchiladas,
G
D
tomales, frijoles,
G
D
and tacos. ta cos.
G
D
You like ta cos?
You don't understand me?
G
Tacos. Senor,
D
G
D
you can explain what is tacos.
Tacos is around
G
D
G
D
what you eat at the end of the dinner,
G
right?
Que es eso?
D
G
Tacos?
Tacos.
D
Not tecos?
Not tecos.
F
Oh, si. Ah, senor.
G
C
I like how you play the pi ano
very much.
G
C
That is good, senor.
Otherwise,
G
C
G
I thought it was little funny.
C
F
C
Well, I'm glad he is with Victor. Si. Si.
G
C
F
G
Ah, you make ex tra years, senor.
C
And you correct my Spanish.
F
But you play very good.
C
F
C
Very good. you play the music of Mexico
C
you know your sound tonight
G
C
F
tell first the people your name
ladies and gentlemen
what is your name senor
tell the people
F
C
F
your first name ladies an d gentlemen
C
F
F
F
this is size which is a sigh or see it's
C
F
C
F
This is Sy. Sy. Sisy.
C
F
Hello, hello.
F
All right, all right.
Hello?
Hello?
All right. Hello?
F
C
Ah, senor, your first name is Sy.
F
What is your last name?
F
F
Rapaport. Rapaport?
F
You come from Mexico?
How you get a name like Rappaport?
C
F
C
F
C
It wasn't easy.
G
C
G
C
Ah, this is the music I like to hear.
F
Tonight you are playing very,
F
C
very good, senor, like...
G
G
Oh, you play like Liberace.
I like my voice.
C
F
You just told me you like Belafonte.
F
C
F
F
I like my voice. Good.
C
F
If Liberace's hotter than
Bb
G
a blacksmith's forge,
C
G
C
the credits do the candles and
F
his brother George.
Bb
Liberace says of all the mockery,
D
G
C
It isn't Georgia candles,
F
G
it's the crockery.
C
Oh, everybody's gotta
F
have a little crockery.
D
G
But happiness, believe you me,
C
C
G
C
you're about to have se curity.
G
F
Olé! Olé!
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