(capo 2)  
  
Intro:  D A E A  D A E A  
        D A E A  D A E A  
  
   E                       A  
My garden is filled with papayas and mangos  
   E                    A  
My life is a mixture of reggaes and tangos  
D                        A                      E  
Taste for the good life, I can live it no other way  
      D                          A  
While out on the beach there are two empty chairs  
         D                        A  
That say more than the people who ever sit there  
     D                  A                     E  
From under my lone palm I can look out on the day  
  
  

[Refrão]
             D  A    E           A  
       Where no bird flies by my window  
       D  A       E          A  
       No ship is tied to my tree  
       D                       A  
       Love is a wave building to a crescendo  
       E                               (Intro chords)  
       Ride if you will, ride it with me  
  
I know this girl made memories and phrases  
Who lived her whole life in both chapters and phrases  
Danced 'till the dawn, wished all her worries away  
Well she wasn't crazy, no she wasn't mad  
She just wanted the father that she never had  
From under my lone palm I think about her today  
  

[Refrão]
             D  A    E           A  
       Where no bird flies by my window  
       D  A       E          A  
       No ship is tied to my tree  
       D                       A  
       Love is a wave building to a crescendo  
       E                               (Intro chords)  
       Ride if you will, ride it with me   
  

[Ponte]
  
F#m                            A  
We sailed from the port of indecision  
F#m                               A  
Young and wild with oh so much to learn  
G              D           E                 F#m  
Days turn into years as we tried to fool our fears  
           D           E          A  
But to the port of indecision I returned  
  
My gardens are filled with papayas and mangos  
My life is a mixture of jingles and jangles  
Come Christmas winds and blow all my worries away  
  

[Refrão]
             D  A    E           A  
       Where no bird flies by my window  
       D  A       E          A  
       No ship is tied to my tree  
       D                       A  
       Love is a wave building to a crescendo  
       E                               (Intro chords)  
       Ride if you will, ride it with me