The Captain Johny Songbook

G C G D

G

Pink Palace lobby, five o'clock light

C G

Two glasses sweating, she's laughing just right

Em

All of these sunsets, we still feel the thrill

C D

Terry looks over, I settle the bill

G

Then we're off on our way down to Malio's

C

"Captain Johny, Miss Terry — good to see you"

Em C

Candles and grouper and a red-wine view

G

She says, "Captain Johny, you starin'?"

D

I say, "Yes, I sure am."

C G

Some men chase the horizon

D G

I found mine in your eyes

C G

Pass-a-Grille sunset, sand still warm on our feet

Em D

The Gulf turning copper, the whole town gone sweet

C G

Somebody's ringing that old bronze bell

Em D

Ten times, twelve times, fifteen — I can't tell

C G

'Cause I'm lost in her pretty face instead

C G

Pass-a-Grille sunset and Terry by my side

Em D

Every single evening, the same golden tide

C G

The sun goes down easy, the bell says goodnight

D G

And I fall for her again, right on time

G

Paradise Grille, nine hundred Gulf Way

C G

The crowd gets quiet like the end of a play

Em

They pick out a stranger to stand on the sand

C D

Some kid from Ohio with a bell in his hand

G

And Terry leans in, says, "You'd never get chosen"

C

I say, "Terr', I got picked back when I said I do"

Em C

She laughs a little, the way that she does

D G

Forty years later, that's still what love does

C G

Pass-a-Grille sunset, sand still warm on our feet

Em D

The Gulf turning copper, the whole town gone sweet

C G

Somebody's ringing that old bronze bell

Em D

Ten times, twelve times, fifteen — I can't tell

C G

'Cause I'm watching that golden tan glow instead

C G

Pass-a-Grille sunset and Terry by my side

Em D

Every single evening, the same golden tide

C G

The sun goes down easy, the bell says goodnight

D G

And I fall for her again, right on time

Em C

I've watched a thousand sunsets from a helm out at sea

G D

Not one of them ever looked back at me

C G

But she does

D G

Lord, she does

C G

Pass-a-Grille sunset, sand still warm on our feet

Em D

The Gulf turning copper, the whole town gone sweet

C G

Somebody's ringing that old bronze bell

Em D

Ten times, twelve times, fifteen — I can't tell

C G

Terry, take my hand

D G

And we're sailin' home again

C D G

And we're sailin' home again

G C G D

G

I bought her off a dentist in Apollo Beach, in the third act of a divorce

C G

He handed me the keys and said, "She'll take anything you point her at," of course

Em C

Name was on the transom so I left it there — two words in flake and gold

G D

Every single morning somebody makes the joke, and I laugh like it ain't old

G D

Wasn't Me — that's the name on the back

Em C

Wasn't Me — every time, laugh track

G

Ask me where the money went

D

Ask me who let the anchor slip

C G

Wasn't me, wasn't me

D G

It's a hell of a way to run a ship

G

Bet's got the scale and the smoked mullet dip, and a book where the numbers don't lie

C G

Lloyd's got a wrench and a folded-up note, and the decency not to ask why

Em C

Marco calls me "Chief" and I call him "Late," and the tide don't wait for us

G D

We're out past the marker by quarter to six, arguin' over who packed the ice

G D

Wasn't Me — that's the name on the back

Em C

Wasn't Me — every time, laugh track

G

Ask me where the summer went

D

Ask me who let the whole thing slip

C G

Wasn't me, wasn't me

D G

It's a hell of a way to run a ship

Em C

There's a tick in the portside, somewhere south of Egmont Key

G D

"It's the fuel pump." "It ain't the fuel pump." "It's the fuel pump."

D7

Hey—

G D

Wasn't Me — that's my name on the back

Em C

Wasn't Me — every time, laugh track

G

Ask me where twenty years went

D

Ask me who let the good years slip

C G

Wasn't me, wasn't me

D G

It's a hell of a way to run a ship

C D G

Wasn't me… no sir… wasn't me