Incommunicado

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Incommunicado
Words and Music by Jimmy Buffett,
Deborah McColl, and M.L. Benoit.

[Intro]
   D                  G     D         Bm    A          D    Dsus   D
e|---------2--3--5----7-----5-------|-2-0----------------------------------|
B|------3---------------------------|-----3------3-------------------------|
G|----------------------------------|-------2------------------------------|
D|-4--------------------------------|---------------2--4-5-4-2--4--0-------|
A|----------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------|--------------------------------------|

   D                  G     D         Bm    A          D  Dsus D
e|---------2--3--5----7-----5-------|-2-0----------------------------------|
B|------3---------------------------|-----3--------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------|-------2----0--------2-0--------------|
D|-4--------------------------------|-----------------4-4------4-----------|
A|----------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------|--------------------------------------|

[Verse 1]
D                      Bm
Travis McGee's still in Cedar Key
G                       Em      A7
That's what old John MacDonald said
D                      Bm
My rendezvous's so long overdue
     G                         Em         A7
With all of the things I've sung and I've read
F#m             Bm
  They still apply to me
F#m            G
 They all make sense in time

[Chorus]
            D        G D
But now I'm incommunicado
Bm           A             Em          A
Drivin' by myself down the road with a hole in it
D               G  D
Songs with no vibrato
Bm            A       D    Dsus D
Taking the long way home

[Interlude]
   Bm    A           D  Dsus D
e|-2-0----------------------------------|
B|-----3--------------------------------|
G|-------2----0--------2-0--------------|
D|-----------------4-4--------4---------|
A|--------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------|

[Verse 2]
           D                   Bm
Now on the day that John Wayne died
          G                Em       A
I found myself on the continental divide
        D                  Bm
Tell me where do I go from here
           G                       Em         A
Think I'll ride into Leadville and have a few beers
  F#m                      Bm
I think of "Red River" or "Liberty Valance"
        F#m                 G
Can't believe the old man's gone

[Chorus]
             D        G D
But now he's incommunicado
Bm             A         Em           A
Leaving such a hole in a world that believed
       D                 G D
That a life with such bravado
    Bm             A        D     Dsus  D
Was taking the right way home

[Interlude]
   D                G     D         Bm    A          D    Dsus   D
e|-----------0-2----3-----2-------|-2-0----------------------------------|
B|---------3----------------------|-----3------3-------------------------|
G|---0-2--------------------------|-------2------------------------------|
D|-4------------------------------|---------------2--4-5-4-2--4--0-------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------------|

   D                G     D         Bm    A           D
e|-----------0-2----3-----2-------|-2-0----------------------------------|
B|---------3----------------------|-----3--------------------------------|
G|---0-2--------------------------|-------2----0--------2-0--------------|
D|-4------------------------------|-----------------4-4--------4---------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------------|

[Verse 3]
          D                    Bm
So when I finished that last line
          G                     Em            A
I put the book by itself on the shelf with my heart in it
D               Bm  G          A           D
Never wastin' time, takin' the right way home
           D               Bm  G           A           D
I know I'm never wastin' time, findin' the right way home

[Chorus]
           D        G D
Still I am incommunicado
Bm          A         Em         A
Livin' next door to a leg with a pin in it
D                 G D
Life with such bravado
   Bm             A       D
Is taking the right way home

[Outro]
D
Tryin' to make it
Bm
Tryin' to fake it
G                 Em    A
Tryin' to take it home
D
Tryin' to make it
Bm
Trying to fake it
G                   Em      A
Tryin' to take it home.   I know I'm
D
Tryin' to make it
Bm
Sometimes I fake it
G         A7       D             A
Tryin' to take it home.  All I'm doin' is
D
Tryin' to make it
Bm
Tryin' to fake it
G         A7       D
Tryin' to take it home
            D        G D
But now I'm incommunicado...

D  A7  D

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Incommunicado
Words and Music by Jimmy Buffett,
Deborah McColl, and M.L. Benoit.
[Verse 1]
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
[Chorus]
[Outro]
D  A7  D

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