Name: Double Shifts At The Spanish Main
Duration: P00H03M02S
Description: A co-write during the 50 songs in 90 days challenge. In the early 1970's my mom worked as a waitress at a restaurant called The Spanish Main, the same building where I met my wife many years later. The events in the song are purely fictional.

Double Shifts At The Spanish Main

from Yoga Bird Acoustic Yoga Flow Lindsey Zimmerman Sept 23 2016 by Andy Getch

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A co-write during the 50 songs in 90 days challenge. In the early 1970's my mom worked as a waitress at a restaurant called The Spanish Main, the same building where I met my wife many years later. The events in the song are purely fictional.

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Double Shifts at the Spanish Main
Words and music by Andy Getch and Becky Warren

A F#m D A
“I got customers,” she tells them, when they wanna buy her a drink
A B7 D A
With each glass they down they throw their money around and hit the tip jar with a wink
C#7
They got tan lines where their rings should be
F#m B7
Saccharine in their pleas
Bm F#m D A
The ropes and the rivets at the Spanish Main open their hearts like a master key

CHORUS:
E D A
The old men say, “Hey Betsy, lemme take you away”
E D A
“I got a hotel room with a beach side view and twenty dollar bills for days”
Bm F#m
She just laughs when they start playin’
A G D
Actin’ like she’s the one who needs saving
E A G D
From double shifts at the Spanish Main
E A G D
Double shifts at the Spanish Main

She used to let em think she was thinking it over, now she don’t need tips that much
She’s got a man who works days near the Everglades and she and him do well enough
But the Cadillacs keep pulling up
Full of men who call her Buttercup
So she pours ‘em another and brings em their supper and keeps her own mouth shut

CHORUS

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from Yoga Bird Acoustic Yoga Flow Lindsey Zimmerman Sept 23 2016, released October 24, 2016
Andy Getch - guitar and vocals
Lindsey Zimmerman - yoga instruction

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