Key: D
Introduction:
D- C9- G
(verse 1)
D
Well I came from California,
Just a teenage drunkin buck,
G
She took me north to her home town,
D
Where she thought we might marry, and settle down,
A Bb A
I wasn't ready for the freezing cold,
D
I wasn't ready to wear no ring of gold,
(chourus)
D A
Fly me south for the winter,
A
I need a good change in the weather,
A
My cold heart ain't gettin any warmer,
D C9- G D C9- G
Fly me south, south for the winter,
(verse 2)
D
Well I'm lookin for a new love,
Somethin on the other side,
G
A southern belle talkin in a southern drawl,
D
Walkin in the sun, with her danty parasaw,
A Bb A
She treats a man as sweet as a peach,
D
But in this ganky land she's out of my reach,
(Chorus)
D A
Fly me south for the winter,
A
I need a good change in the weather,
A
My cold heart ain't gettin any warmer,
D C9- G D C9- G
Fly me south, south for the winter,
D
(verse 3)
D
I'll go to Alabama and run through Tennessee,
and through Louisiana, and across the Mississippi,
G
Deep in the heart of the Texas pride,
D
The Carolina's to the Georgia pines,
A Bb A
I'll find a lady with some southern kin,
D
Buy me a ticket and I'm gone with the wind,
(Chorus)
D A
Fly me south for the winter,
A
I need a good change in the weather,
A
My cold heart ain't gettin any warmer,
D C9- G D C9- G
Fly me south, south for the winter,
D C9- G
south for the winter,
D C9- G- F- D
south for the winter