Hey, have you noticed that the world has changed That world is all bad I think it's time for a song about that Up on the East side of Manhattan, They're still ...

"Okay" I really do appreciate the fact you're sittin' here Your voice sounds so wonderful But yer face don't look too clear Bar maid bring a pitcher, another ro...

Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall You've seen it all, you've seen it all Watched the men ...

Sail on the horizons gotta landfall rendezvous Captain steers a well-known course, he steers straight & true As he trims the sheets, he sings a song He learned ...

I was listening for answers That I could not really hear When the words of a wise old Indian Put a conch shell to my ear And I took off for the ocean I was sea...

By: Jimmy Buffett 1971 Hardly seems a long time Just a minute of the day But the man who stood beside me More than gave himself away The food stain on his spott...

See the lady Smiles as if to tell Her son remembers everyone Treats 'em all quite well He never asked for promises And now his fame is wide And everyone who kne...

By Bruce Cockburn The hills are full of secrets Owls watch by night Down in town the bars are full And the drunks are picking fights These are things I know Bu...

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 ...

Tomorrow may come, it usually does Don't know what it will bring to the two of us I just want you to know What I'm ready to do Anything, anytime, anywhere For ...

Jimmy Buffett, Henri Ledee, Leon Ledee, Marcel Limodin, Jean-Jacques Kraif Mes amis nous allons quelque part dont tout le monde Se rappelle d'un endroit ou l'h...

Baby's gone shoppin' she's lookin' around She's checkin' out the boys and the clothes about town Pick up this drop off that Stares at her pictures from the Foto...

Now the day is done And I sit alone and think of you girl What would I do without you in my life Wonderin' if you love me or just playing a fool of me Well I h...

He's a man on a mission Wild as a ricochet Picture if you can when the Everglades ran From the Gulf Coast to Biscayne Bay He's gonna give it back to the gators...

(Chris Tompkins, Josh Kear, and Mark Irwin) At the Bama Breeze You can shoot some pool down there You can act a fool down there You can play it cool down there...

Down to the Banana Republic Down to the tropical sun Go the expatriated Americans Hoping to find some fun Some of them go for the sailn' Called by the lure of ...

Scratch my back with a lightning bolt Thunder rolls like a bass drum note The sound of the weather is Heaven's ragtime band We all fell down fromthe Milky Way H...

Marilyn Monroe did a night shoot in a pool; Posing naked for a playboy spread She was old, but she still was cool When they wrapped right after midnight And th...

By: Jimmy Buffett, Buzz Cason 1971 Evil, it's been here all along Good things, they just seem to have come and gone In my life I have seen so much go wrong And ...

Just like Santa, I come around once a year Time to break out all of your party gear There'll be a jump up out on the lawn Just look for all your friends Singing...

By: jesse winchester 19? ? Down around biloxi Pretty girls are swimmin? in the sea They all look like sisters in the ocean Boy will fill his pale with salty wat...

Once I knew a man Showed me the slight of hand Blink of an eye, he danced across the strings Played a song I'd never heard Poignant and absurd To this day it l...

Boat drinks Boys in the band ordered boat drinks Visitors scored on the home rink Everything seems to be wrong Lately, newspaper mentioned cheap air fare I got...

(with Alan Jackson) It's time for a change I'm tired of that same ol same The same ol words the same ol lines The same ol tricks and the same ol rhymes Days p...

Well, You've heard about the alligators sleepin' in the shade You've heard heard about the sugar barons screwin' up the 'glades, It's a melting pot existence Th...

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 re...

(Jimmy Buffett and Matt Betton) I bought a cheap watch from a crazy man Floating down canal It doesn't use numbers or moving hands It always just says now Now ...

Bring Back the Magic by Jimmy Buffett and Will Jennings Chorus: Nothing can tear you apart When you keep living straight from the heart Though you know that yo...

This train slipped into the station A worn out steel blue soul A relic from colonial days When the French were still in control Lorsque les Francais ont ete en ...

California promises By: steve goodman 1983 Beneath the moonlit sky Shadows walk beside the water Sad goodbye whispered on the shore Hear those wind chimes play ...

Carnival World by Jimmy Buffett, Roger Guth and Jay Oliver My father always said that there's no free ride You've got to make a sacrifice With so many prophets...

Folks, Gull Reef regrets the water shortage Wild night out there! Water in the sea, water from the sky, no water in the Club, but while the pump gets repaired, ...

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 p...

Chanson pour les petits enfants By: jimmy buffett 1979 [song for the little children] Now young mister moon flew away in the night With his best friend magnus r...

Cheeseburger In Paradise By: Jimmy Buffett 1978 Tried to amend my carnivorous habits Made it nearly seventy days Losin' weight without speed, eatin' sunflower s...

(Guy Clark) Meanwhile down on Biel Street Drinking in a Biel Street bar There's a fog rolling off the Mississippi Has anybody seen Arkansas? And the deckhands ...

Little roadside restaurant we artfully complain Groovy tells the waitress that his chicken died in vain Most every day goes by according to design I live this d...

Well, I'm a tidal pool explorer From the days of my misspent youth I believe that down on the beach Where the seagulls preach Is where the Chineese buried the t...

Come Monday By: Jimmy Buffett 1974 Headin' up to San Francisco For the Labor Day week-end show I've got my hush-puppies on I guess I never was meant for glitter...

(with Clint Black) Bella was bored to death at South Beach, Not one celebrity spotted in days She was tired of her mood, Lunchin' on vegan food She was tired o...

Oh i'm just a cowboy, an old hired hand Never seen nothin' majestic or grand I just received a great big tax return Now i'm off to las vegas with money to burn ...

By: Jimmy Buffett 1971 It's the ways of her father If she's gonna change she hasn't done it yet And the desert is calling to me Run before the final trap is set...

This song brings to mind two things First, an image of Robert Mitchum standing in the doorway of a bar in Tijuana, and Second, a line by Thomas McGuane, my brot...

Halloween in Tijuana Full moon in my eyes I wonder how in the hell I got here Without a disguise Should I take this last step Or turn myself around Or follow m...

He ain't nothin' but a Dickhead He's been one all his life If he ever gets married he'll be a Dickhead with a wife He's got no damned excuse God knows how he tr...

By jimmy buffett, 1997 A little parody of God rest ye, merry gentlemen, which I wrote at jimmy?s bequest, disclosing the real reason the rich folks live on this...

You can spend all your days in the grind Converting your nickels to dimes You could stuff all your pockets till they overflow Don chu know Don chu know Don chu ...

BuffettJimmy/Don't_Bug_Me "Don't Bug Me" by Jimmy Buffett, Michael Utley, and Jay Oliver Don't bug me Don't mug me I'm better left alone Let me twirl In my w...

(Henry Kapono) People here and all over the world Men, women, boys and pretty girls Gather 'round by the seaside, Beach fun and tropic skies Diamond head and p...

Why is he cussin' and calling disgustin' The city that is now his home He never smiles or keeps up with styles He is black and he is all alone And you ask why h...

(David Rawlings and Gillian Welch) I was thinking that night about Elvis Day that he died, day that he died I was thinking that night about Elvis Day that he d...

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long Like a worn-out recording, of a favorite song So while she lay there sleeping, I read the paper in bed And i...

It was ninety miles to freedom but they took the risk Though the ocean was all motion and the wind was brisk The deadly gunboats never saw them in the pale moon...

(Buffett/Will Kimbrough) Message in a bottle, rhythm of a drum Smoke signals and telegraphs make the airwaves hum But that's all ancient history like bongs and...

First time I ran Was to the end of the block I didn't know then That it never would stop Mow I look around And what do I see More and more people Running faster...

The skies over Cuba turned pink with the light And the waterfront ritual began to ignite All the ships in the harbor were warmed by the sun Twenty-fifth of Nove...

Ramadan is over, The new moon's shown her face, I'm halfway round the planet, In a most unlikely place Following my song line Past bamboo shacks and shops Behi...

She came down from Cincinnati It took her three days on the train Lookin' for some peace and quiet Hoped to see the sun again But now she lives down by the oce...

by: Jimmy Buffett If men came from Venus and women came from Mars then I'd be lunching with my boyfriends while you girls talked about cigars but that's not ho...

Frank and Lola By: Jimmy Buffett, Steve Goodman 1982 "Lucy and Ricky, Fred and Ethel, Laurel and Hardy, Spanky and Buckwheat, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and Frank an...

In Amerigo, Carnival was as hallowed as Christmas itself, perhaps slightly more so There was a meaning to it See, Islanders did not put into words, yet which m...

I want a job that's not too demandin' Where you do, a lot of standin' Don't want to be an elevator operator No way a salesman, no way a waiter Cause I'm a gentl...

God Don't Own a Car by Jimmy Buffett I have been a wandering I have traveled near an far One conclusion I have made Is God don't own a car He doesn't wear no...

Well, like to explain to you all before, I ain't no drinkin' man I tried it once and it got me highly irregular And I swore I'd never do it again I promised my ...

The Good Fight by Jimmy Buffett D G They talk about their women too much A D The women got 'em so confused Th...

Gypsies In The Palace By: Jimmy Buffett, Glenn Frey, Will Jennings 1985 "I have heard that some of the great parties of all times have been at my house - when I...

[transcribed by Bryan J] Happily Ever After (Now And Then) By: Jimmy Buffett 1996 I've been a stand-in, a stunt man I've takin' some falls Troubles I've had my...

(John Lennon, Yoko Ono) And so this is Christmas and what have you done Another year over; a new one just begun And so this is Christmas, I hope you have fun T...

Stashed his trash in Ecuador Bought a good suit of clothes Flew on up to Mexico Standin' by the shore Waitin' for some mystery man To pay him for his time But ...

He went to Paris lookin' for answers To questions that bothered him so He was impressive, young and aggressive Savin' the world on his own But the warm summer ...

Notes: Henny is Norman's wife of many years She knows that his move to the Caribbean is a midddleaged fantasy, fraught with potential disaster, but she means to...

(Jimmy Buffett) Here we are Here we are Here we are Here we are Who would have thought this game, this flame would still be burning Who would have guessed tha...

(with Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and George Strait) (Jimmy) Hey, Hey, Good Lookin', whatcha got cookin' How's about cookin' somethin...

Maybe leaving's better in the afternoon When the rain don't fall so hard From where we were we had to look down far below To see just what went on in our own ba...

Swing my cutlass at the tall grass And anything that gets in my way That's my job here, let's be quite clear Working is how I spend my day Scary? Verrry I can i...

Santa's stressed out as the holiday season draws near He's been doing the same job now going on two thousand years He's got pains in his brain and chimney scars...

That weather channel girl With her perfect weather curl Is talking cold, cold, cold You can't get out of bed You can't remember what you've said You're feeling...

Honey Do By: Jimmy Buffett, Michael Utley 1983 For Hoagy Carmichael You never try to keep the wild ones home But mister don't just sit there and wait Go out on ...

(Jimmy Buffett, Peter Mayer, Roger Guth, Will Kimbrough) She owns a window to the ocean She has a pipeline to the sky But earthly creatures rarely notice When ...

It's never been the same since you returned from dreamin' With your nursery rhyme excuses and your picture postcards gleamin' Tellin' everyone who looks your wa...

Why does the sunset in the west? And why does my heart keep beating in my chest? What ever happened to the Duke of Earl? I got a PBS mind in a MTV world Is it i...

I'll be home for Christmas, You can count on me Please have snow and mistle toe And presents 'neath the tree Xmas Eve will find me Where the love light gleams ...

If I had a boat I'd go out on the ocean And if I had a pony I'd ride him on my boat And we could all together Go out on the ocean Me upon my pony on my boat If...

There are oceans of feelings between us Currents that take us and sweep us away That's why we seldom have seen us In the light of a cold hard day Lots of new f...

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long Like a worn-out recording of a favorite song So while she lay there sleepin', I read the paper in bed And in...

There's a world where I can go And tell my secrets to In my room In my room In this world I lock out All my worries and my fears In my room In my room Do my d...

As a child on the farm I was warned of the wiles of the city Of that demon disguise As the dirt in the skies of the city Well they say the proximity warps thei...

By: Jimmy Buffett 1971 In the shelter In the mornin' as the sun was brightly beaming I heard her crying out, "What is it all about? I just don't know, but I can...

By Jimmy Buffett, 1996 Jimmy Buffett explores new creative ground here, putting the two-hundred year history of Amerigo, a fictitious Caribbean island, into a C...

By: jimmy buffett, david loggins 1980 For jane Island I see you in the distance I feel that your existence Is not unlike my own Island they say no man is like y...

[Alan:] The sun is hot and that old clock, is movin' slow, and so am I Work day passes like molasses, in winter time, but it's July Getting paid by the hour, ...

Catch the elevator from the penthouse suite And take it down to the casino The God almighty sound of money movin' round Can be heard all the way to Reno Well i...

In the middle of late last night I was sittin' on a cur I didn't know what about but I was feeling quite disturbed A street sweeper came whistlin' by He was bou...

The sun is hot and that old clock is movin' slow And so am I The workday passes like molasses in wintertime But it's July I'm gettin' paid by the hour and olde...

Sheila Watah in de kitchen! Church Water in the bar! Ensemble It's all about da water, don't you know Kinja needs da water, da H2O It's all about da water, it...

There is a tale that the island people tell Don't care if it is true 'cause I love it so well Jolly Mon sang for his supper every night The people fed him well ...

Promenade dans un bois la vielle Louisiane Les ombres lougnes nos pas silents l'air de la Louisiane Toi et moi ne parlant pas en sucant d'la canne Pour un insta...

Lady I Can't Explain What could I do? That's never been done before What can I say? That hasn't been said by scores If I was a designer I could do nothing fin...

By Mac McAnally, Jimmy Buffett If they gave Olympic medals for running all-night long I would have won them all until I turned pro I've got miles of dedication ...

I went down to Captain Tony's To get out of the heat I heard a voice call out to me "Son come have a seat" I had to search my memory As I looked into those eyes...