Chord/Tab song: Something So Feminine About a Mandolin

By: Jimmy Buffett, Jane Slagsvol Buffett
[1975]

This verse is played throughout the song.

-------5-7-5-5-------------------------------------------------------|
--5H7----------7-5----------------------------------5----------------|
--------------------7-7-----------7----------7/11--------------------|
-----------------------7/9--7--9----9-7-7-9--------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------------------------|

Then reapt this again

[E]It was late in the evenin', just a [A]few of us [E]pickin'
But the [A]lady she [E]played so [A]easy and [B]fine[E][B]
And the c[E]hords that she strummed were so t[A]astefully c[E]lever
They [F#m]planted this [Abm]song in [F#m]my [Em]mind

Chorus:
'Cause there's somethin' so feminine [A]about a [E]mandolin
The [A]way that they [E]feel, the [A]way that they [B]ring[E][B]
Just to [E]see slender fingers, [A]movin' so quickly
[F#m]Made this [Abm]boy want [F#m]to [E]sing

And when I get older and I have a daughter
I'll teach her to sing and play her my songs
And I'll tell her some stories I can barely remember
And hope that she will sing along

And maybe one day she'll take a fancy to pickin'
'Cause when that bug bites you, you live with the sting
And if she could just strum a few simple measures
She could make some young man sing

'Cause there's somethin' so feminine about a mandolin
Way that they feel, the way that they ring
And that evenin' in a pasture somewhere near Austin
That mandolin made me sing

Her mandolin made me sing

---------------------------------------

Chord diagrams:
Abm - |466444| F#m - |244222|

---------------------------------------

Enjoy!