G
Life is just too short for some folks;
      C                       G
For other folks it just drags on.
G
Some folks like the taste of smokey whiskey;
  C
Others figure tea's too strong.
 G
I'm the kind of guy who likes to stand in the middle.
    C                                     G
I don't like all this bouncing back and forth.
 Em                      C
Me, I want to live with my feet in Dixie
        D                     G
and my head in the cool blue north.

 G                          C                                G
In a small suburban garden not a single neighbour knows our name.
G
I know that the woman wishes we could move
            C                    D
where the houses aren't all the same.
              G
"Say, Johnny, I would like to go where the grass is greener.
    C                              G
I couldn't really say where it might be.
     Em                 C             D                     G
But some place high on a mountaintop down by the deep blue sea."
  C     Cmaj7               Em           Am                       D
There we'll do just as we please, 'cause it ain't nothing but a breeze.

   G
Someday I'll be your great grandpa.
 C                                  G
All the pretty girls will call me "Sir".
G
Now when they're asking me how things are.
 C                              D
Soon they'll ask me how things were.
   G
I don't mind being an old grey grandpa
     C                             G
as long as you'll be my great grandma.
    Em                               C
And I think we should move with our tea and cookies
         D                   G
to the shade of the old Pau Pau.

 C    Cmaj7                 Em           Am                      D4     D
There we'll do just as we please, 'cause it ain't nothing but a cool breeze.

 G
Life is just too short for some folks;
      C                       G
For other folks it just drags on.
 G
Some folks like the taste of smokey whiskey;
 C                         D
Others figure tea's too strong.
   G
I'm the kind of guy who likes to stand in the middle.
   C                                      G
I don't like all this bouncing back and forth.
Em                          C
Me, I want to live with my feet in Dixie
        D                     G
and my head in the cool blue north.
        Em                          C
I said: Me, I want to live with my feet in Dixie
        D                     G
and my head in the cool blue north.