C
I don't smoke I don't shoot smack
      C
But I got a spicy monkey riding on my back
          C
Don't eat beignets too much sugar and dough

[Chorus]

    G      F         C
But I will play for gumbo
    G      F         C
Yes I will play for gumbo

[Verse 2]

C
It started in my grandma's in her kitchen by the sea
    C
She warned me when where she told me "son the first one's free"
   C
It hit me like a rock or some Taekwondo

[Chorus]

      G      F         C
Cause I will play for gumbo
        G      F         C
Oh yeah I will play for gumbo

[Verse 3]

  F
A piece of french bread with which to wipe my bowl
C
Good for the body, good for the soul
       F
It's a little like religion and a lot like sex
G
You should never know when you're gonna get it next

   C
At midnight in the Quarter or noon in Thibodaux

[Chorus]

G      F         C
I will play for gumbo
     G      F         C
Yes, I will play for gumbo

[Verse 4]

        C
I'm not talking quesadillas or a dozen Krispy Kremes
     C
Or a pound of caviar that's a rich man's dream
          C
No banana split or filet of pompano

[Chorus]

    G      F         C
No, I will play for gumbo
      G      F         C
Yeah, I will play for gumbo

[Solo on C scale or argeggio]

C

[Bridge]

  F
A piece of french bread with which to wipe my bowl
C
Good for the body, good for the soul
       F
It's a little like religion and a lot like sex
G
You should never know when you're gonna get it next

[Verse 5]

C
Maybe it's that sausage or those pretty pink shrimp
        C
Or that popcorn rice that makes me blow up like a blimp
C
Maybe it's that voodoo from Marie Laveau

[Chorus]

    G      F         C
But I will play for gumbo
    G      F         C
Hey I will play for gumbo

[Verse 6]

        C
Now the sauce boss makes his cookin' on the stage
C
Singing and a-picking for his nightly wage
C
Sweating and a frettin' from his head to his toe

[Chorus]

G           F                 C
Playin' and swayin' with the gumbo
G           F                   C
Prayin' and buffetin' with the gumbo

[Bridge]

  F
A piece of french bread with which to wipe my bowl
C
Good for the body, good for the soul
       F
It's a little like religion and a lot like sex
G
You should never know when you're gonna get it next

   C
At midnight in the Quarter or noon in Thibodaux

[Chorus]
G      F        C
I will play for gumbo
G      F        C
I will play for gumbo
G      F        C
I will play for gumbo
G      F        C
I will play for gumbo