Pencil Thin Moustache keyboard

Pencil Thin Moustache

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Pencil Thin Moustache performed by Jimmy Buffett from the Album 'Living and 
Dying in 3/4 Time'. Probe (EMI) ABC Records SPBAA-3070, 1974. Also on double 
live album, 'You Had To Be There' ABC Records AK-1108, 1978. Australian 
releases. 
Words & Music by Jimmy Buffett 
Transcribed by Mark Loring & Ian Kerr. Apologies if some af the words are 
guessed, please correct if you know the song. 
 
Pencil Thin Moustache 
Intro:              Eb  G7  C7  F7  Bb  Eb  
 
Eb                 G7                       C7 
Now they're makin' movies in old black and white, 
         F7                                 Bb7 
With happy endings where nobody fights 
     Eb                     G7             C7 
So if you find yourself in that nostalgic rage, 
F7                                      Bb7 
Honey jump right up and show your age 
 
  Eb                G7                        C7                        Bb7 
Eb 
I wish I had a pencil thin moustache, the Boston Blackie kind 
  Eb                      G7         C7 
A two tone Ricky Ricardo jacket, 
                 F7                                Bb7 
And an autographed picture of Andy Devine 
 
    Eb                                      Eb7              Ab 
I remember being buck toothed and skinny, 
                    Adim 
Writing fan letters to Sky's niece Penny 
           Eb                G7                       C7 
Well I wish I had a pencil thin moustache, 
         F7                             Bb7          Eb 
Then I could solve some mysteries too. 
 
              Fm               C                  Fm             C 
There's Bandstand, Disneyland, growin' up fast, 
Fm                 C        Fm 
Drinkin' on a fake ID yeah 
Gm                D                Gm                 D 
Rama of the jungle was ev ' ry - one's Bwana, 
         Bb7 
But only jazz musicians were smokin' marijuana 
 
  Eb                G7                       C7            F7 
Bb7          Eb 
I wish I had a pencil thin moustache, then I could solve some mysteries too. 
 
PENCIL THIN MOUSTACHE 
 
              Fm          C                Fm           C 
There's Flat-Top, Dirty Bop, coppin' a feel, 
Fm                   C                 Fm 
Grubbin' on the living room floor, so sore, yeah 
Gm                     D                    Gm             D 
Send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, 
      Bb7                            Bb7 
But all you want to do is learn how to score, yeah 
Eb                     G7           C7 
Now I'm gettin' old, don't wear underwear. 
F7                                      Bb 
I don't go to church and I don't cut my hair 
      Eb              G7                C7 
F7             Bb        Eb 
But I can go to movies and see it all there just the way that it used to be. 
 
  Eb                G7                       C7            F7        Bb7 
Eb 
I wish I had a pencil thin moustache, the Boston Blackie kind 
   Eb                   G7          C7                          F7 
Bb7 
A two tone Ricky Ricardo jacket, and an autographed picture of Andy 
Devine 
  Eb                          Eb7                                  Ab 
Adim 
I could be anyone I wanted to be, the suave Errol Flynn or the sheik of 
Araby 
     Eb             G7                       C7            F7 
Bb7      Eb 
If I only had a pencil thin moustache, then I could do some cruisin' too 
yeah 
         Eb                                                         F7 
Bb7      Eb 
Bryl l -  cream a little dab'll do ya     yeah    I could do some cruisin' 
too.  

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