If I Had a Boat

Lyle Lovett

Note: Lyle recorded this song w/capo 9. The following is an arrangement in the same key, but capo 4.

Capo 4

/ C - - - / - - - - / F – C/E - / C - - - /

/ C - - - / G - - - / C - - - / - - - - /

Chorus:

F C/E C

If I had a boat

F C/E C
I'd go out on the ocean

F C/E C
And if I had a pony

Am G
I'd ride him on my boat

F C/E C
And we could all together

F C/E C
Go out on the ocean

C G C
Me upon my pony on my boat

C
If I were Roy Rogers

F C/E C
I'd sure enough be single

C G
I couldn't bring myself to marrying old Dale

C
It'd just be me and Trigger

F C/E C
We'd go riding through them movies

C G C
Then we'd buy a boat and on the sea we'd sail

Chorus

C
The mystery masked man was smart

F C/E C
He got himself a Tonto

C G
'Cause Tonto did the dirty work for free

C
But Tonto he was smarter

F C/E C
And one day said Kemo Sabe

C G C
Kiss my ass I bought a boat, I'm going out to sea

Chorus

C
And if I were like lightning

F C/E C
I wouldn't need no sneakers

C G
I'd come and go wherever I would please

C
And I'd scare 'em by the shade tree

F C/E C
And I'd scare 'em by the light pole

C G C
But I would not scare my pony on my boat out on the sea

Chorus (repeat last line)

This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.