The Jimmy Buffer Song

David Allen Coe



Prelude:

This song is for all the people that’s been reviewing our records and say we sound a lot like Jimmy Buffet because we live in Key West and use Congo drums in our songs. For all those people that live in Key West and are under the misconception that Mr. Buffet live in Key West and we’d like to say there’s a lot of things in Key West, as a matter of fact, there’s





Chorus:



There’s sailboats and conk shells and palm trees galore,



But Jimmy Buffet doesn’t live in Key West anymore



Sister spare change has a bumper sticker on the door



Says Jimmy Buffet doesn’t live here any more





Verse 1:



Hey smugglers need those Buffet songs, snitching on the sly



Bringing heat where it’s already to damn hot to die



Son of a son of bitch, what’s all that bullshit for



Jimmy Buffet doesn’t’ live in Key West anymore





Verse 2



Sailing to the Caribbean Jimmy might well be



Pictures up in Rollin’ Stone for all the world to see



The rich keep getting richer, the poor they just stay poor



Jimmy buffet doesn’t’ live in Key West anymore





Verse 3



Now Jimmy’s moved to Malibu with all those other stars



He’s not down at in Duval Street hangin’ out in bars



All them God damned tourist, got to be a bore.



Jimmy Buffet doesn’t live here any more







Verse 4



So don’t tell me I sound like Jimmy Buffet



Just because I got that island beat



Jimmy might have grown up on the ocean



Me, I kinda grown up on the street



Music’s just a way of life, me I’m liv’in free



Don’t lay all that Key West Jimmy Buffet shit on me



Verse 5

Now Divers Do It Deeper must have really made them mad



Some of them reviewers said it really sounded bad



Well they liked Margaritaville, me I liked it too



Someday Jimmy, why don’t we just both get drunk and screw



Oh those creepy Mother Fuckers that think music is a whore



Tell that you just don’t live in Key West anymore



Chorus:

There’s sailboats and conk shells and palm trees galore,



But Jimmy buffet doesn’t live in Key West anymore



Sister spare change has a bumper sticker on the door



Says Jimmy Buffet doesn’t live here any more