{"id":20972,"date":"2024-06-19T23:24:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T23:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/?p=20972"},"modified":"2026-09-24T21:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:52:43","slug":"banana-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/banana-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Banana Republics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Banana Republic<\/span>,<\/span> Jimmy Buffet, 1977<\/span><\/p>\n

[Intro]\r\n [G]        [G]        [Am]       [Am]      \r\n [D]        [D]        [G]        [C]\/[G]  [G]       \r\n [G]        [G]        [Am]       [Am]      \r\n [D]        [G]  [C]   [G]  [D]   [G][G]([G])   <\/span>   \r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[G] Down to the Banana Republics, [Am] down to the tropical sun,\r\ngo the [D] expatriated Americans, [G] hopin' to find some fun.\r\n[G] Some of them go for the sailing, [Am] called by the lure of the sea.\r\n[D] Tryin' to find what is ailing, [G] livin' in the land of the free.\r\n[G] Some of them are running from lovers, [Am] leaving no forward address.\r\n[D] Some of them are running tons of ganja,\r\nsome are [G] running from the I.R.S.\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n[Dm] Late at night you will find them,\r\nin the [Am] cheap hotels and bars,\r\n[C] Hustling the se\u00f1or-[G]-itas [C] while they [G] dance [D] beneath the [G] stars.\r\n[Dm] Spending those renegade pesos on a [Eb] bottle of rum and a [D] lime.\r\nSingin' [C] give me some words I can [G] dance to,\r\n[C] or a [G] melo-[D]-dy that [G] rhymes.<\/span>\r\n \r\n[G]<\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[G] First you learn the native customs, [Am] soon a word of Spanish or two.\r\n[D] You know that you cannot trust them, 'cause [G] they know they can't trust you.\r\n[G] Expatriated Americans, [Am] feelin' so all alone,\r\n[D] telling themselves the same lies that they [G] told themselves back home.<\/span>\r\n \r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[G]<\/span>        [G]<\/span>        [Am]<\/span>       [Am]<\/span>      \r\n[D]<\/span>        [D]<\/span>        [G]<\/span>        [G]<\/span>       \r\n[Dm]<\/span>       [Dm]<\/span>       [Am]<\/span>       [Am]<\/span>      \r\n[C]<\/span>        [G]<\/span>  [C]<\/span>   [G]<\/span>  [D]<\/span>   [G]<\/span> ([G]<\/span>)<\/span><\/strong>      \r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[G] Down to the Banana Republics, [Am] things aren't as warm as they seem,\r\n[D] none of the natives are buying any [G] second-hand American dreams.\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }<\/span>\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[G] Down to the Banana Republics, [Am] down to the tropical sun;\r\ngo the [D] expatriated Americans, [G] hopin' to find some fun.\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
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Banana Republic, Jimmy Buffet, 1977 [Intro] [G] [G] [Am] [Am] [D] [D] [G] [C]\/[G] [G] [G] [G] [Am] [Am] [D] [G] [C] [G] [D] [G][G]([G]) [Verse 1] [G] Down to the Banana Republics, [Am] down to the tropical sun, go the [D] expatriated Americans, [G] hopin’ to find some fun. … CLICK TO VIEW SONGBanana Republics<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jimmy-buffett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20972"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33907,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20972\/revisions\/33907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}