| Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
Off To See The Lizard |
| Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
Pencil Thin Mustache |
| I got a PBS mind in an MTV world. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
I Don't Know And I Don't Care |
| The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
The City |
| I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
A Pirate Looks At Forty |
| Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
A Pirate Looks At Forty |
| I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About |
| We spent ninety jillion dollars trying to get a look at Mars, I hear universal laughter ringing out among the stars. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
Fruitcakes |
| Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
Overkill |
| I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About |
| I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
Pencil Thin Mustache |
| Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
Today's Message |
| You get religion as your hair turns grey. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
The Christian |
| You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
The Christian |
| I have been drunk now for over two weeks. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
A Pirate Looks At Forty |
| I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
Boat Drinks |
| Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
That's What Living Is To Me |
| I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
What If The Hokey Pokey Is All It Really Is About? |
| I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
The Night I Painted the Sky |
| Some people never find it, some only pretend. But me, I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
Happily Ever After |
| We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
Don Chu Know |
| What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
What If The Hokey Pokey Is All It Really Is About? |
| I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
Come Monday |
| I still believe in rock and roll, it pays my bills. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
What If The Hokey Pokey Is All It Really Is About? |
| With you I would walk anywhere. |
Jimmy Buffett, |
Come Monday |