Take Another Road by Jimmy Buffett, Jay Oliver, and Roger Guth

Seen the false horizon fade away like bison
Headed for the jungle, the cowboy can’t endure
Never look back, that’s what he swore
Run take my pony to the shore
somewhere, somewhere

Take another road to a hiding place
Disappear without a trace
Take another road in another time
On another road in another time
Like a novel from the five and dime
Take another road in another time

Follow the equator, like that old articulator
Sail upon the ocean, just like Mr. Twain
Never look back, this is my plan
Run my pony in the sand
Somewhere, somewhere

Take another road to a hiding place
Disappear without a trace
Take another road in another time
On another road in another time
Like a novel from the five and dime
Take another road in another time

Leave my cares behind
Take my own sweet time
Ocean’s on my mind

Take another road to a hiding place
Disappear without a trace
Take another road in another time
On another road in another time
Like a novel from the five and dime
Take another road in another time

 That’s My Story And I’m Stickin’ To It by Jimmy Buffett and Jay Oliver

Kindergarten King of excuses
Sister Mary Mojo, so hard to trick
What can I say
The dog ate my homework
I could play the game
They love me anyway

Alibis, angles and tales from the tropics
Come to my mind, so easy and quick
Spacemen from mars stole all of my money
I could play the game
They love me just the same

That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it
That’s my life and all that I’ve got
Call me a liar, call me a writer
Believe me or not
Believe me or not

Women always know before you tell them
The younger girls, so easy to trick
What’s that word? I think I’m eccentric
I can play the game
They love me anyway

Revelations
Love when they happen
Wizards and lizards, I choose and I pick
In a hundred years it all won’t matter
How you play the game
They love you just the same

Repeat Chorus

I will play the game
I still stay the same
I will play the game
Believe me or not

Repeat Chorus

That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it
That’s my life and all that I’ve got
Call me a liar, call me a writer
Believe me or not
Believe me or not

I will play the game
I will stay the same
I will play the game
Again
And again

I will play the game
I will stay the same
I will play the game
Again
And again



Why The Things We Do by Jimmy Buffett, Jay Oliver, and Roger Guth

In an old house down by the beach
Lives an old man who’s just out of reach
Ohhh he’s got nothin’ to lose
Some say he’s a crazy old man
A refugee from a rock and band
Oh oh he’s still playin the blues

In the mornin’ when you rise
Aren’t you glad to be alive
Oh oh put on your barefoot shoes
When you dance beneath the moon rainbow
Can’t you feel the afterglow
Oh oh why the things we do
Why the things we do

In the driftwood house you learn how to dream
Truth is stranger than fishin’ it seems
Oh oh there’s no earthly rules
And the people come to hear him say
Life’s too short to live your way
Oh oh who’s really fooling who

Invisible means are the key to support
Makes you a king in your own court
Oh oh what have you got to lose
Push the sadness from your heart
There’s no living in the dark

Why the things we do
Why the things we do
Why the things we do
Why the things we do

Why the things we do
Why the things we do
Why the things we do
Why the things we do

In the mornin’ when you rise
Aren’t you glad to be alive
Oh oh put on your barefoot shoes
When you dance beneath the moon rainbow
Can’t you feel the afterglow

Oh oh that’s why the things we do
That’s why the things we do
That’s why the things we do
That’s why the things we do



Gravity Storm by Jimmy Buffett and Jay Oliver

Apple fall out of the tree and hit the ground
Pretty soom we realize we’re earthly bound
Babies fall and babies cry in early years
Mamas dust them off and wipe away the tears

Ohhhhhhhh watch out for that gravity storm
It don’t give no warning signs
Ohhhhhhhh watch out for that gravity storm
Ohhoo

All your life you have to deal with ups and downs
So listen to your heartstrings as you move around
Don’t forget to listen to the steady beat
Don’t forget to balance on your ready feet

Repeat Chorus

I will keep you warm
Shelter from the storm
All your life
I well keep you warm
Shelter from the storm
All your life

Apple fall out of the tree and het the ground
Pretty soom we realize we’re earthly bound
Babies fall and babies cry in early years
Mamas dust them off and wipe away the tears

Repeat Chorus

I will keep you warm
Shelter from the storm
All your life
I will keep you warm
Shelter from the storm
All your life



Off To See The Lizard by Jimmy Buffett and Jay Oliver

I was raised by a maid who came from Martinique
She wore geckos round her neck and bracelets on her feet
A superstitious woman from the land of sugar cane
She’d sing the sun to bed and dance out in the rain
Dance out dance out dance out dance out in the rain

She’d excite us with his legend that the Africans had told
About a red iguana who turned lava into gold
We’d mount an expedition headin’ out into the bay
Superstitious children playing pirate for a day

CHORUS
Off to see the lizard
Off to see the lizard
Deja deja deja vu, believe it
And it will come true
Veja Veja Veja du
What works for me might work for you

Bein’ rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs
That’s the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns
Godzilla’s halitosis it be vaporizing cars
Elvis up in Michigan or maybe out on Mars
Dance out dance out dance out to the stars

But livin’ in the briar patch ain’t what it appears
Sooner or later you gotta face your fears
I heard it from the parrot verbalizing in the tree
I heard it in the song lines of the aborigine

Off the see the lizard
Off the see the lizard
Deja deja deja vu, believe it
And it will come true
Veja veja veja du
What works for me might work for you

Does it work for me?
Yeah yeah
Will it work for you?
Yeah yeah
If you believe it will
Yeah yeah
It will come true

I got problems with my brain underneath my curls
Problems wif Loraine and all the other girls
Love a wealthy woman and the pretty plane she flies
If you think this songs confusing you should see it through my eyes
Dancin, dancin, dancin through my eyes

I’m turning off the waterfall the tourists can go home
Feel it time to travel time to write a poem
Time to seek some therapy I’m goin’ walkabout
Answers are the easy part questions raise the doubt

Off the see the lizard
Off to see the lizard
Deja deja deja vu, believe it
And it will come true
Veja veja veja du
What works for me might work for you

Deja deja deja vu, believe it
And it will come true
Veja veja veja du
What works for me might work for you



Boomerang Love by Jimmy Buffett

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
How long we’ve been apart

Been ridin’ on this boomerang love circling fast
hard to see in a sky so vast
Laugh till you cry, cry till you smile
Up and down all around
Boomerang boomerang
Boomerang love

Now we both know, we live in different orbits
Different islands, different worlds
Though we really are the same
I’m just glad, glad we started talking
Finally realize no one is to blame

Repeat Chorus

We’ve been riding on a boomerang love
can’t let go
Run so fast, move so slow
What’s the right way, who is to say
Tension and suspension
On a boomerang boomerang love
Boomerang boomerang love

Big blue hole out in the ocean
Where I dive straight down until I can not see
Feel my way through a bevy of solutions
There I realize the answer lies in me

Gettin’ off of this boomerang love
Comin’ up for air
Do what’s right do what’s fair
Come what may, we’ll find a way
No more tension and suspension
No more boom boom
Boomerang love



Strange Bird by Jimmy Buffett and Jay Oliver

Half fast and seldom seen
He don’t blip the radar screen
On the deck below the dune
Under the commander’s moon

Strange bird from a different nest
Flying low not like all the rest
God only knows where the strange bird goes when he’s flyin’

Everybody’s trying to find him
But they don’t know where to start
The ornithologist lady says that he has wings on his heart

Strange bird from a different nest
Flying low not like all the rest
If you can’t catch him, you can’t claim him
If you can’t see him you can’t name him
Stay on the ground or he will shoot you down
Wings on his heart, he’s a strange bird

His only home is in the skies
Slicing through the cloudy pie
Above the whole Caribbean
Moves the swift amphibian

Strange bird from a different nest
Flying low not like all the rest
If you can’t catch him, you can’t claim him
If you can’t see him you can’t name him
Stay on the ground or he will shoot you down
Wings on his heart, he’s a strange bird
Watch out girl, he’s a strange bird

But he’s in love with the lady of the waters
And she lives somewhere up around Cheauxvan
He’s gonna circle high above her runway of love
Until she gives him her permission to land

Strange bird from a different nest
flying low not like all the rest
If you can’t catch him, you can’t claim him
If you can’t see him you can’t name him
Stay on the ground or he will shoot you down
If you can’t see him you can’t claim him
If you can’t see him, you can’t name him
Stay on the ground or he will shoot you down
Wings on his heart, he’s a strange bird

Strange bird flying low
Cross the Gulf of Mexico
Strange bird, not like all the rest
Wath out girl, he’s a strange bird
Shoot you down, he’s a strange bird
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a strange bird



I Wish Lunch Could Last Forever by Jimmy Buffett and Jay Oliver

The place down the block, the one with no clock
Covert rendezvous with you at the usual time
I savor the scent of the fish on the grill
Life’s so spicy up on bar-b-q-hill

Lookin’ good, you look so fine
Waiter bring us one more bottle of wine

I wish lunch could last forever
Make the whole day one big afternoon
We’ll begin with dessert a little coconut tart
Mmmm tastes as sweet as a piece of your heart
Cafe au lait beneath the Paris moon

Don’t hide you eyes just wear your disguise
Brazil’s in the air I swear it feels like Mardi Gras time
I savor the scent love that Anik Goutal
As we walk in time to the cathedral bell

Repeat Chorus

I wish lunch could last forever
Make the whole day a first time love affair
We’ll begin with a kiss, such a warm place to start
Let me into your life, let me into your heart
Mea culpa mea culpa carnivals in the air



The Pascagoula Run by Jimmy Buffett and Jay Oliver

“Billy Buffett was the best worst influence in my formative years. He was a sailor through and through and lived life to the fullest. The day he pulled into our driveway in that Jaguar, my heart skipped a beat. And when he asked me to drive him to New Orleans, I didn’t realize it, but I had crossed the wild meridian. My alter boy days were done, and my eyes were open wide. Thank you, Uncle Bill.” - Jimmy

Billy pulled in in a Jaguar
Red convertible sixty-five
Headed home to Mississippi, he’d been around the world
He was that black sheep uncle of mine

His ship had come in, he was lookin’ to sin
He was singing his own song
When he yelled from the drive, my heart came alive
"Jimmy boy come along"

It’s time to see the world
It’s time to kiss a girl
It’s time to cross the wild meridian
Grab your bag and take a chance
Time to learn a cajun dance
Kid your gonna see the mornin’ sun
On the Pascagoula run

Friday night at the Stateline Bar
Where the waterfront peole dwell
Better watch my step if the floor caves in
I’ll go right straight to hell
There were pinball machines and Cajun queens
Men with knives and scars
Billy moved ‘cross the floor through
the real hard core
And said "Here’s where it gets bizarre"

Repeat Chorus

What do the ladies say what do the ladies say
What do the ladies say what do the ladies say
What do the ladies say what do the ladies say
What do the ladies say what do the ladies say
What do the ladies say what do the ladies say

Bring that young man over here
We gonna buy that boy a beer
And that ain’t all we want to do
And bring your crazy uncle too

It’s time to see the world
It’s time to kiss a girl
It’s time to cross the wild meridian
Grab your bag and take a chance
Time to learn a cajun dance
Kid your gonna see the mornin’ sun
On the Pascagoula run



Mermaid In The Night by Jay Oliver and Roger Guth

I went out fishing on a sandy beach
Cast my line out as far as it would reach
Looking for something from the frying pan
I kick back with a beer in my hand

I must’ve got a big one cause it’s bending my pole
I’m having to fight just to keep my hold
It could be a whale (oh) God only knows
Whatever it is it’s not wearing any clothes

She’s larger than life
Made from holy water
She’s covered in green
She’s got little scales upon her
She’s larger than life
She’s a mermaid in the night

She’s got a set of gills, like no fish I’ve ever seen
Long blonde hair and a tail in between
I’m in love ith a creature from the sea
And she’s bringin’ out the crustacean in me

Her voice is a temptation it’s a siren song
When we kiss there could be no wrong
I ask her to marry me, to be my wife
And we could do the backstroke for the rest of our lives

Repeat Chorus

She’s larger than life
Made from holy water
She’s covered in green
She’s got little scales upon her
She’s larger than life
She’s a mermaid in the night



Changing Channels by Jimmy Buffett and Mac McAnally

“This was written for Isabella, the imaginary heroine of my short story “I Wish Lunch Could Last Forever.” I miss her and catch up with her life in the next story. I assure you she is still changing channels.” - Jimmy

Girl of a thousand faces
From a long line of basket cases
Daughter of a fortune teller
Oh the lovely Isabella

She’s changing channels
Stayin’ on her toes
She’s just changin’ channels
As she goes

This place is full of beachhead sailors
Fisherman and old retailers
Simple lives are so deep seated
and history always gets repeated
Some folks see a birds eye view
Others haven’t got a clue
Some will go and some will stay
It doesn’t matter anyway

They are changin’ channels
Crazy girls and boys
They’ll be changin’ channels
Changin’ toys

Survivors of tidal waves
children of former slaves
Strange how they all behave
Like it’s another world

There’s an island in the ocean
Where the people stay in motion
Somewhere on the old gulf stream
Do they live or did I dream

They are changin’ channels
Crazy girls and boys
They’ll be changin’ channels
Changin’ toys

They’ll be changin’ channels
Waitin’ for their sails too fill
They’ll be changing channels
Always will