Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream by James Taylor Lyric and Guitar Chords

If you are looking for Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream by James Taylor using guitar or guitar.
This song by James Taylor can also be played by that instruments.
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Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream guitar chords has rhythm and included in In the Pocket (1976) album.
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Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream by James Taylor Guitar Chords


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Words and Music by James Taylor
(c) 1976, 1980 Country Road Music

Now you

G
country fools in your
Em7
one-horse town, you can
G
laugh at me
Em7

It’s
G
plain as rain that you’ve
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never been down to the
G
southern sea
Em7

To
G
see me now is like
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watching a fish on
G
dry land
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I
G
only wish you could
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see me down in the
F
is
C
- lands
C
Mister, t
D
hat’s my
G
home
What a
F
fool I was to
C
leave the only
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happiness I’ve [C/D]known.
G
Em7
G
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You see

G
me comin’, you wink yo
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ur eye and call me Capta
G
in Jim
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And when I
G
don’t do nothin’ but to
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walk on by you say,
G
“Baby get a load o
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f him.”
G
All I need is the
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sea and the sky and
G
I know where I
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stand
in
G
stead of you hicks straight
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out of the sticks d
F
eciding I ain’t
C
a man
C
You’ll ne
D
ver understand;
G

Up
F
here I’m just a
C
whiskey bum but
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down there I’m a
D
king
It
F
sounds just like the
C
angels up in hea
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ven when they
!
sing:
D7
”Welcome
G
home,
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G
welcome home
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.” –
G
Such a sight to
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see
ins
F
tead of some Salv
C
ation [G/B]Army
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sister singin’
“[C/D]Nearer My God to
G
Thee.”
Em7
G
Em7

Now I

G
know that the Yankee w
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hiskey is
G
takin’ away my
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mind
and I
G
know that run is the
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only drink
G
suitable to man-
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kind
And I
G
know that this tree I’m
Em7
under is
G
shaped entirely wr
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ong
I
G
need to see a g
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entle palm tree and
F
I won’t wait to
C
o long
I can f
C
eel that it’s
D
comin’ on s
G
trong
The
F
first cold wind of
C
winter is
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flappin’ in my
D
clothes
F
Showin’ me the
C
way with the dir
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ection that it [C/D]blows.
Welcome
G
home,
Em
welcome hom
G
e, let it
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blow. (repeat and fade)

If you want to learn James Taylor Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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