Treat Her Like A Lady Chords

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Treat Her Like A Lady by Jimmy Buffett is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, Dm7, G, G7 and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Treat Her Like a Lady 
From the Jimmy Buffett album _Volcano_ 
By: Jimmy Buffett, David Loggins  
1979  
 
Chorus:  
            C 
Some of us sailors call her home  
 
She's big and she's strong and she's mighty  
            F                    Dm7 
Some of us sailors call her our own  
 G                       G7 
Guess that's the reason why  
                    C   Am 
I treat her like a lady  
                       F    Dm7 
Just treat her like a la -- dy  
 
     C 
Now I don't like the sound of the ground movin' 'round  
                          F 
Or winds spinnin' out of control  
     G                        G7 
California earthquakes, only seem to make a' me  
                    C 
Shake, rattle, and roll  
 
I've been too long on the mainland  
Hotels, rental cars, and phones  
Time to cast 'em aside, catch the very next tide  
And go back, where I belong  
 
Chorus:  
Some of us sailors call her home  
She's big and she's strong and she's mighty  
Some of us sailors call her our own  
Guess that's the reason why  
I treat her like a lady  
Treat her like a lady  
 
Now great whales travel the rhumb lines  
Dodging those deadly harpoons  
Spawning their young, as their ancestors done  
In the depths of her hidden lagoons  
 
There're times I find myself with them  
And times I feel as they do  
We're on a similar course, it's just a different source  
But I'm in danger of extinction too  
 
Chorus:  
Some of us sailors call her home  
She's big and she's strong and she's mighty  
Some of us sailors call her our own  
Guess that's the reason why  
I treat her like a lady  
Treat her like a lady  
Treat her like a lady  
Treat her like a lady  
 
And miss her when I'm gone  
 
(Lady, lady) treat her like a lady  
(Lady, lady) treat her like a lady  
(Lady, lady) got to treat her like a lady  
(Lady, lady) treat her like a lady  
Lady, lady  
Lady, lady  
Lady, lady 
 
transcribed by Arleen Myers ([email protected]) July 1995 
    	

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