Intro B5 Determined to prove everyone wrong B5 Maizy packed her one good dress and her two good virtues B5 N.C. And headed for the big, scary city!B5 You take the truck (You take the truck) B5 To the rock (To the rock) E B5 By the ducks by the dock, aww B5 Grab a boat that'll float B5 Take a donkey to a horse F#5 B5 To a bull to a turkey to a goat B5 And then you jump (And then you jump) B5 You jump on the road (You jump on the road) E B 'Til it runs out of dirt B By the Methodist Church B By the Baptist Church B F# By the Church of Christ where she got baptized B In the whiskey river F# N.C. B G7 Where there used to be a barn before there was a twister C It's a skip (It's a skip) C Then a frog (Then a frog) C On a log to a great hound dog C Then a bus to a bus and you might need to rush G To an Uber to a train (Got a ticket with your name) G And we just touched down on a Southwest plane Interlude G And we just touched down on a Southwest plane! G7 Oh!Verso 1:
Fmaj7 In Tampa (Oh!) Fmaj7 Em7 I came all the way through Nashville and Atlanta! (Oh!) Gadd9/A A7 Dm7 Do I send a postcard or a pigeon back to grandpa? (Oh!) G7 Cmaj7 Tell him everything is beautiful in Tampa? Fmaj7 In Tampa (Oh!) Fmaj7 Em7 Everyone's a Tina or a Tamara! Gadd9/A A7 Dm7 It's a bleach and platinum blonde extravaganza! G7 C Ab7 Yeah, everyone is beautiful in Tampa! C# It's not at all (It's not at all) C# What I've been told (What she's been told) C# The sand is white, the sun is gold Ab7 C# And all the people are so old C# Get a tan, take a stroll, and then dip your toe Ab C# In the Gulf of Mexico C# And they all said (And they all said) C# I'd lose my way (She'd lose her way) C# That this was just a big mistake Ab But how could I go wrong with Chinese Food (Oh) Ab7 C# And frozen yogurt every day? Interlude N.C. Every day? (Every day?) C# Ab Every single day!Verso 2:
C# They've got a doctor for your face Ab C# And one to freeze the fat away C# And one to help you with addictions Ab7 C# For afflictions such as porn Ab7 C# And one for corn! Ab7 C# And one for corn! Absus4 Ab7 And one for corn! (And one for corn...) F#maj7 In Tampa F#maj7 Fm7 Between the botox and the tannin' beds and plasma (Oh) Bb7 Ebm7 Now, there's a reason for another stanza! (Another stanza) Ab7sus4 Ab7 F#maj7 Man, I really should've brought a camera F#maj7 Fm7 Bb7 Some guy offered me some thing called mara-wahna Ebm7 Seems that they've got everything Ebm7 Ocean breeze is why we sing F#add9/Ab Because we have everything F#add9/Ab Ab They've got everything Db In Tampa!Verso 3: