Come On In lyrics - Jimmy Buffett
It's a mystery
Oh, the high road
Took us long and far and fast
Just like the wind blowed
We knew it couldn't last
So we went our separate ways
It was not the time or place to settle down
Oh, wisdom takes its time to come around
In the fall out
Of just living day to day
I hear you call out
In that old familiar way
It's a signal from your heart
It's a sign of love much stronger than before
So baby just don't stand there in the door
Come on in
Come in from the danger
Come on in
Where the water's calm
Feel your grin
We're not really strangers
I just want you to know
This ain't no cloak and dagger show
Let the waterfall of love just overflow
It's amazing
How the both of us have changed
Like two children
We have only come of age
Now the circle's getting small
No time to play that game of win or lose
Let's give it one more shot
What can we lose?
Come on in
Come in from the danger
Come on in
Where the water's calm
Can't you see me grin
We're not really strangers
I just want you to know
This ain't no cloak and dagger show
Let the waterfall of love just overflow
Come on in
Come in from the danger
Come on in
Where the water's calm
That familiar grin
Tells me we're not strangers
I just want you to know
This ain't no cloak and dagger show
Let the waterfall of love just overflow
Come on in
Come in from the danger
Come on in
Where the water's calm
That familiar grin
Tells me we're not strangers
I just want you to know
This ain't no cloak and dagger show
Come on in
Come in from the danger
Come on in
Where the water's calm
That familiar grin
Tells me we're not strangers
I just want you to know
This ain't no cloak and dagger show
Gentleman Of Leisure lyrics - Jimmy Buffett
(originally by Dan Seals)
I want a job that's not too demandin'
Like where you got to do a lot of standin'
No way to be an elevator operator
No way a salesman, no way a waiter
'Cause I'm a gentleman
A gentleman of leisure
The classified ads got nothin' too appealin'
I don't know but I've just got the feelin'
It might take a while to find a position
With a pretty secretary and time to do some fishin'
'Cause I'm a gentleman
Gentleman of leisure
I'm a gentleman
A gentleman of leisure
Set me in the sun
Gentleman of leisure
Let me take my time
Bet you I can please ya
Forty hour week (Can ya make it thirty?)
No heavy liftin' (Get yourself dirty)
Beautiful office (37th floor)
Paintings on the wall (sign on the door saying)
Gentleman of leisure
You know, I look nice in a clean white collar
Take home pay, oh, say a million dollars
I'll keep lookin', never say die
'Cause somebody somewhere is lookin' for a guy
Who's a gentleman, a gentleman of leisure
Oh I'm a gentleman, a gentleman of leisure
Set me in the sun
Gentleman of leisure
Let me take my time
Bet you I can please ya
Now I'm not looking for a high tech position
I'm thinking of something more like work on the beach
Oh, ma'am, could I help you put that suntan lotion on your back?
Now we're talking. That's the kind of work I like
Mm, dog-walking. I can do that
Play chess down on Lakeshore Boulevard
Looking good
Yes, I was a lifeguard once
Moonfog lyrics - Jimmy Buffett
(from "The Beach Bum" soundtrack)
Lookin' for the moon dog
Is he fishin' in the moon fog?
A-runnin' days like a wild hog
Never want to act incog
We've seen this act before
Heard this font of love
He's a wanted man
With his head stuck in the sand
Down and disavowed
Bein' way too fuckin' loud
We gotta get a leash on that dog
Woof! On that dog
He's always dancin' in the moonbeams
Never cozy in the mainstream
Always suckin' up the moonlight
Never really got his mind right
Meltin' like a Fudgsicle
Left out in the sun
Time is runnin' out
He's a man on the run
Death of a dream
We've got to plot a scheme
Got to get his ass out of town
Did you never find the moon dog?
Keep him hidden in the moon fog
A little ganja and some good grog
Keep it gentle to the moon dog
Always workin' on a moon scheme
Not exactly lookin' downstream
Watch him up it like a tree frog
Hope he makes it to his epilogue
Epilogue
Demagogue
Monologue
Hoppin' frog
Moon dog
Paradise (Live) lyrics - Jimmy Buffett
When I was a child my family used to travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backward old town that's so often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn
Hey daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot off our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
Hey, daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away
Well coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
And they dug for their coal 'til the land was forsaken
And they marked it all down as the progress of man
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waiting
Just five miles away from wherever I am
Hey, daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away
Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away
Southern Cross lyrics - Jimmy Buffett
(originally by Crosby, Stills & Nash)
Got out of town on a boat to the southern islands
On a reach before a following sea
We were makin' for the trades on the outside
On the downhill run to Papeete
On this headed off wind lie the Marquesas
We got eighty feet of waterline nicely making way
In a noisy bar in Avalon, I tried to call you
But on the midnight watch I realized why twice you ran away
Think about (Think about) how many times I have fallen
Spirits are using me, larger voices callin'
What heaven brought you and me cannot be forgotten
I have been around the world
Looking for that woman, girl
Who knows love can endure
And you know it will
You know it will
When you see the Southern Cross for the first time
You understand just why you came this way
'Cause the truth you been runnin' from is so small
But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day
And I'm headed all the way to where dreams are dyin'
And my love is an anchor tied to you, tied with a silver chain
I have my ship and all my flags are a-flyin'
She is all that I have left and the music is her name
Think about (Think about) how many times I have fallen
Spirits are using me, larger voices callin'
Whatever brought you and me cannot be forgotten
I have been around the world, lookin', lookin'
Looking for that woman, girl
Who knows love can endure
And you know it will
You know it will
So we cheated and we tried and we tested
And we never failed to fail, it was the easiest thing to do
You will survive being bested
Somebody strong comes along makes me forget, forget about loving you
And the Southern Cross
Woo, yeah
Thank you
Not only are we, uh, happy to see y'all
35,225 of you out there tonight
We appreciate this
We also are broadcasting this tonight live on Radio Margaritaville as we do all of our shows, free of charge, tonight
And we'll continue to do so all summer
So it's not only going out to Wisconsin and the great Midwest
We're going around the world tonight, Parrot Head
The Ever Elusive Future lyrics - Jimmy Buffett
The ever-elusive future
Ever-elusive future
The ever-elusive future's like a comet with a tail
That human, stride lasso, but we always seem to fail
The ever-elusive future spins a hybrid with a slash
For fools and fortune tellers always looking for the cash
But there's always something lurking in the jungle
Better watch your step, it's not a place to stumble
Something's moving, something's coming
The ever-elusive future
Ever-elusive future
The ever-elusive future is a script right from our past
Conjoining frogs and raptors that may leave the world a ghast
The ever-elusive future has no time to read fate
Creation, Mother Nature are who is the missing link
'Cause there's always, something lurking in the jungle
It's getting hot, I'm feeling kinda fungle
Never sleeping, always creeping
The ever-elusive future
Ever-elusive future
More then the strong survive, who's gonna be alive
In a million years (in a million years)
How lucky can you get, life's a long shot, yet, but we're still here
The ever-elusive future, it just sows the seeds of time
It's mission's been a secret, no reason nor no rhyme
It's hiding in a wormhole, or behind some distant moon
But the one thing you can count on, it will be here fairly soon
And there's always something lurking in the jungle
Better watch your step, it's not a place to stumble
Something's moving, something's coming
The ever-elusive future
(Ever elusive)
Ever-elusive future
(Ever elusive)
The ever-elusive future
(Not much to compare)
Ever-elusive future
(How do we get there)
Workin' 'n' Playin' lyrics - Jimmy Buffett
Workin' and playin'
Playin' and workin'
Workin' and playin'
Well, it wasn't by choice that I was born on Christmas
I popped out in Panama floatin' through the isthmus
My daddy was a navy man, my momma was a nurse
And they named me Present but I have heard worse
Call it a gift like gold egg layin' and I don't see the difference
Between workin' and playin'
It's the same to me
Playin' and workin'
Simultaneously
Workin' and playin'
Feels so fine, I think I'll play a little overtime
(Na na na na na...)
I got parochial schooled on permission and forgiveness
But the nuns said fun ain't none of your business
So I got motivated gonna prove 'em all wrong
I made a real big deal out of a little beach song
The subliminal point I'm here to be making
I just love workin' and playin'
It's the same to me
Playin' and workin'
Simultaneously
Workin' and playin'
Feels so fine
I think I'll play a little overtime
County fair cowboy, guess what you're weighin'
Highwire act, twirlin' and swayin'
Pretty girls winkin', nuns prayin'
I'm a lucky son of a son to be
Workin' and playin'
Playin' and workin'
Workin' and playin'
Feels so fine, I think I'll work a little overtime
Workin' and playin'
All the same to me
Playin and workin'
Simultaneously
Workin' and playin'
Feels so fine, I think I'll play a little overtime
(Na na na na na...)
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