Alan Jackson - It's Five O'clock Somewhere

Submitted by:  Wade Wall Jr.

Strum Pattern I use:  D DU U DU

Intro 
D, G, A, D

                                           (2 beats A then 2 D-strum: D,U,D,U)
             
The sun is hot

             
 and that old 

             
clock is movin

             
 slow and so a

     
m I
             
Workday passes

             
 like molasses

            
 in wintertime

             
 but it's July
             
I'm getting pa

              
id by the hour

     
 and older by 

the minute
             
My boss just p

         
ushed me over 

the limit
             
I'd like to ca

     
ll him somethi

ng
             
I think I'll j

              
ust call it a 


day


Chorus:
             
Pour me someth

    
ing tall and s

trong
             
make it a hurr

             
icane before I

 go insane
             
It's only half

             
 past 12 but I

       
 don't care
              
It's five o'cl

                       
ock somewhere

                                             (2 beats A then 2 D-strum: D,U,D,U)   
             
This lunch bre

             
ak is gonna ta

             
ke all afterno

             
on and half th

      
e night
             
Tomorrow morni

             
n' I know ther

            
e'll be hell t

              
o pay but that

         
's alright
             
Ain't had a da

             
y off now in o

ver a year,
             
My Jamaican va

              
cation's gonna


 start right h

ere
             
If the phone's

              
 for me, you c

             
an tell them I

          
 just sailed a

way


Chorus:
             
Pour me someth

    
ing tall and s

trong
             
make it a hurr

             
icane before I

 go insane
             
It's only half

             
 past 12 but I

       
 don't care
              
It's five o'cl

                       
ock somewhere


Bridge:
D, G, A, D


I can pay off 

my tab
        
Pour myself in

 a cab
             
and be back to

             
 work before 2

At a moment li

ke this,
   
I can't help b

ut wonder,
 
 (hold)                  (hold)
            
what would Jim

          
my Buffet do?


Chorus: 2X or 10X - whatever...

Repeat D, G, A, D