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Kokomo Tab

by Adam Green


Song: Kokomo 
Artist: Adam Green

Standard tuning


n/chord:

Aruba, Jamaica, uh I wanna take ya, Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go to Jamaica...


Verse 1:
                    
Off the Florida Keys

                             
  There's a place called Kokomo

                                                
That's where you wanna go to get away from it all

                
Bodies in the sand

                                   
  Tropical drink melting in your hand

                                                        
We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band


  Way down in Kokomo



Chorus:

                                         
Aruba, Jamaica, uh I wanna take ya to Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama

                                                 
Key Largo, Montego...Baby why don't we go down to Kokomo,

       Fm                           C               (*fill-> A sting: 3-2-0 
We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow       last note hits at the 
                                                        following Am chord)
                        
That's where we want to go

                 ()
Way down in Kokomo

End-fill:

e|-----------------------------|      
B|-----------------------------|
G|-----------------------------|
D|-----------------------------|  
A|--3---2h3---2h3-2h3-2h3------|
E|-------------------------3\--|


Verse 2:

                 
We'll go out to sea

                          
  And perfect our chemistry

                                            
By and by we'll defy a little bit of gravity (uoho)

             
Afternoon delights

                              
  Cocktails and moonlit nights

                                                           
That dreamy look in your eye gives me a tropical contact high


Way down in Kokomo



-->(Chorus w/ both fills)


-->(saxo solo) over verse chords (C Cmaj7 C7 F Fm C Dm G)



Verse 3:

                              
Everybody knows   (everybody knows)

                           
  A little place like Kokomo

                                          
Now if you wanna go to get away from it all


go down to Kokomo



-->Chorus x2 (first time acapella, till 'Way down in Kokomo' where guitar comes
in again (no end-fill in here) and continues for the second time):

                   
...Way down in Kokomo

                                         
Aruba, Jamaica, uh I wanna take ya to Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama

                                                 
Key Largo, Montego...Baby why don't we go down to Kokomo,

                                                (*fill)
We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow
 
                        
That's where we want to go

                  
  Way down in Ko-ko-mo



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