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Ringling, Ringling

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

Ringling, Ringling
By: Jimmy Buffett
1974
Ringlin’, Ringlin’ slippin’ away
Only forty people livin’ there today
Streets are dusty and the bank has been torn down
It’s a dyin’ little town

Church windows broken, that place ain’t been used in years
Jail don’t have a sheriff...

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Manana

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

Manana
By: Jimmy Buffett
1978
She said I can’t go back to America soon
So goddamn cold it’s gonna snow until June
Yeah, they’re freezin’ up in Buffalo stuck in their cars
And I’m lyin’ here ‘neath the sun and the stars

Customs man tells her that she’s gotta leave
She’s...

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Great Heart

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Great Heart
By: Johnny Clegg
1987
Travelling always increases the appetite for new music and I found Johnny Clegg tapes in the south of France and was immediately hooked on them. I’m glad there are still younger artists who write and play their own songs that I wish I had written. This is one of them.
(chant)

The world is full...

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A SAILORS CHRISTAS

Friday, June 10th, 2011

(Jimmy Buffett, Roger Guth)
A sail on the horizon’s got a land fall rendezvous
The captain steers a well known course he steers her straight and true
As he trims the sheets he sings a song he learned on boats and bars
"A sailor spends his Christmas in a harbour ‘neath the stars"

He’s traveled through the...

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The Captain And The Kid ( In Albume Havaña Daydreamin’)

Sunday, April 24th, 2011

By: Jimmy Buffett
1975
I never used to miss the chance
To climb upon his knee
Listen to the many tales
Of life upon the sea

We’d go sailin’ back on barkentines
An’ talk of things he did
Tomorrow just a day away
For the captain and the kid

His world had gone from sailin’ ships...

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La Vie Dansante

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

La Vie Dansante
By: Jimmy Buffett, Michael Utley, Will Jennings
1984
[The Dancing Life]
They can come take it all away
Break your heart by the light of day
Drown your love in a distant bay
So lonely
See the ships heading for the rocks
See the time melting off of the clocks
There’s a light shatters...

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Boomerang Love

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

Boomerang Love
By: Jimmy Buffett
1989
Hole in the wind behind the island
Big blue hole in the middle of my heart
I can’t forget the time we spent together
I can’t remember how long
Long we’ve been apart

Chorus:
Riding on a boomerang love circling fast
Hard to see in a sky so vast

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Boat Drinks

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

I took off for a weekend last month
Just to try and recall the whole year
All of the faces and all of the places
Wonderin’ where they all disappeared
I didn’t ponder the question too long
I was hungry and went out for a bite
Ran into a chum with a bottle of rum
And we wound up drinkin all night

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Altered Boy

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Jimmy Buffett, Wayne Jobson

Oh no, he’s buying an island
Oh no, he’s building a boat
Why does he never stop smiling?
Fun surrounds him like a deep moat

Where does he get all those stories?
How can he tell such a lie?
He’s bound to see purgatory
His views are in short supply

But Peter Pan would...

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I Don’t Know and I Don’t Care

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

by: Jim Mayer & Jimmy Buffett

Why does the sun set in the west
and why does my heart keep beating in my chest
what ever happened to the Duke of Earl
I gotta PBS mind in an MTV world

Is it ignorance or apathy
I forget these lessons taught to me
Some say life isn’t fair
hey I don’t know and I don’t...

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