If I Could Just Get It On Paper
by Jimmy Buffett




F               Bb        F
If I could just get it on paper

Bb                            F
The things that have happened tonight

Bb                      F
But that seems to me to be the big key

           G                       C
I'm havin' too good a time to ever turn Out the lights.

F              Bb        F
Go to bed wake up eith a clear head

F              Bb        F
Recalling what made it a ball

Bb                        F
If I could just get it on paper

C                             F
I might make some sense of it all



F               Bb          F
If I could tell half of the stories

Bb                        F
The funny way most things begin

Bb                             F
Figure ways to disguse all the half truths and lies

         G                         C
Find the heart of my song with the point of a pen

F                Bb            F
Simple words can become clever phrases

F                  Bb        F
And chapters could turn into books

Bb                            F
Yes if I could just get it on paper

C                            F
But it's harder than it ever looks.



INSTRUMENTAL


F                Bb          F
All alone in the edge of the water

Bb                          F
Hidin' out by the Sea of Cortez

Bb                                        F
With my sketch pads and Flairs, tapes and battery spares

          G                      C
It's just no comprehendo to what everyone says

F                    Bb            F
Time alone seemed to work well for Faulkner

F                  Bb           F
Time away seems to work for the kid

Bb                               F
Life and ink they run out at the same time

C                            F
Or so said my old friend the squid

Bb                            F
Yes if I could just get it on paper tonight

C                             F
I could tell you what I think I did.