Intro: G Em C G G Em C G Walking around the happiest place in the world G Em C G All I really know is that your hair is still curled Bm C G South of Brownsville, Texas, South of Miami Beach G Em C D All it means to me is that you're further out of reach Bm C Every where is sand and sun, blue sky water too G Em CD I... need you G Em C D (do this in between each verse) G Em C G Spanish moss is hanging and you find a polished stone G Em C G Pocket it for luck and then you walk on alone G Em C G They'll rent you a bicycle with the tires blown G Em C D They'll carve you up a blackened fish and strip it to the bone Bm C A slave ship just came in, I've been talking to the crew G Em CD I... need you G Em C G Well in that house Hemingway is boxing in the back G Em C G I go to the library and check out all the facts G Em C G Nowadays it's hard to write a line, my own thoughts bore me G Em C D I found me an island kid who says he'll do it for me Bm C I'm wiping all my tears away so no one has a clue G Em CD That I... need you G Em C G The last plane out of Saigon did not know that it was G Em C G Every man in prison thinks he's locked up for a cause G Em C G I need something to do , my violin needs to sound G Em C G I'm going to see if Ernest wants to go a couple rounds Bm C Sometimes you gotta get lost till you wind up someplace new G Em CD I... need you A Asus A Am Fm/G Some bird's flapping in the road on some crazy madman's string A Asus A C D/F# Something's messed up with his wing, something's messed up with my everything G Em C G So here's the truth at last, I tell you, Hemingway is dead G Em C G And everybody wants to find a steak that's slightly red Bm C G I thought I could escape myself by just not getting dressed G Em C D I thought I could escape you by coming to Key West Bm G C Sometimes you get lost and you don't find something new G Em CD I... need you G Em CD I... need you G Em CD I... need you