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By: Jimmy Buffett
1971 Chorus: It's a hell of a time to be thinking about heaven Didn't you forget the golden rule You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor But he's a little smart for you to fool You complain how you forgets the gospel You remind them seek and you shall find Maybe youth will have a time for seeking After they clean up what you left behind Chorus: 'Cause it's a hell of a time to be thinking about heaven Didn't you forget the golden rule You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor But he's a little smart for you to fool You were right there when the plate was passed last Sunday That's the second time you've been to church all year Could you really call yourself a christian If charity cost half as much as beer Hey You pray a little more as you grow older You get religion as your hair turns gray But you don't need to worry about hereafter Just worry what you're going to do today Chorus: 'Cause it's a hell of a time to be thinking about heaven Didn't you forget the golden rule You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor But he's a little smart for you to fool Yes my friend I think you've blown your cool Hey |
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By: Jimmy Buffett, Buzz Cason
1970 Why is he cussin' and callin' 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 he's this way Well brother you're too blind to see It's cause Ellis Dee ain't free like you and me Get out of the street don't get high on my beat Go on home the policeman warns Just 'cause you're poor why do you declare war I can't help the way that you were born Why are they holdin' him down He's spending his life on his knees 'Cause Ellis Dee ain't free like you and me Chorus: Got to help Ellis Got to help Ellis You know we got to help Ellis Ellis Dee Try and help Ellis you and me Got to get to Ellis hear his plea Try and help Ellis get free Ellis got hooked, he got booked and he shook In his cold little shivery cell While out on the street in that same funky beat Mister pusher was doing well And Ellis Junior cries tears his daddy can't see 'Cause Ellis Dee ain't free like you and me Chorus: Got to help Ellis Got to help Ellis You know we got to help Ellis Ellis Dee Try and help Ellis you and me Got to get to Ellis hear his plea Try and help Ellis get free 'Cause Ellis Dee ain't free like you and me No Ellis Dee ain't free like you and me |
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Richard Frost
by: Jimmy Buffett Richard Frost left Alabama heading west to find his fame Only got to Oklahoma and that's where he changed his name Now he plays a little tavern all the drunks say he's a star Hollywood forgot his number now he's stuck in Kelly's Bar But is he happy my friend or does he pretend? Is every song a routine chore? Well he every decide to go and not hide behind his fear and Kelly's backstage door Richard Frost draws 90 people and on weekends lines grow long Singing loud and laughing with them the crowd reacts to every song Bigger worlds (?) can't help but make you more aware of what you see Afraid of what's beyond just eyesight keeps the worlds in harmony La da da da da da La da da da da da La da da da da da da da La da da da da da La da da da da da La da da da da da da da |
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By: Jimmy Buffett
1970 Sittin' on a pocket full of hard earned wages Lookin' at the world through magazine pages I heard a lot about the mountains and the Colorado range Made this stop for personal reasons Didn't know I'd catch the changin' of the seasons Winter dictates everything from frost to naked trees Chorus: I'm about a mile high in Denver Where the rock meets timberline I've walked this ground from town to town Just to finally call it mine Lookin' for the cloud with a styrofoam lining Hopin' that the sun will keep on shinin' Leading me to distant peace that waits so patiently Need a little love to try some givin' Try a little love and then start livin' Things I feared so long ago When everything was wrong Chorus: I'm about a mile high in Denver Where the rock meets timberline I've walked this ground from town to town Tonight I'll call it mine Tonight I'll call it mine Sittin' on a pocket full of hard earned wages Lookin' at the world through magazine pages I heard a lot about the mountains and the Colorado range Need a little time to try some livin' Try a little love and then start givin' Things I feared so long ago When everything was wrong I'm about a mile high in Denver Where the rock meets timberline Where God and trees create the breeze Tonight I'll call it mine Tonight I'll call it mine Tonight I'll call it mine Tonight I'll call it mine Tonight I'll call it mine |
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Can you tell me where I might find my friend and companion
Now he looks a little different from anything you've seen He likes to beat the bass drum for justice and salvation He's got the brains of Einstein and the brawn of Mister Clean He's a lightnin' flash who'll make the dash from one coast to the other To stop a crime or lend a dime or help his aging mother Captain America we love you, Captain America you're grand Oh Spiro Agnew eat your heart out Captain America's our man Now he wears a mask his clothes are weird and some folks call him hokie But he is hip he just can't dig the okie from Muskogie Captain will help anyone a friend or a stranger Now number one without a gun he's bypassed the Lone Ranger He's a do do good who loves apple pie and kisses little babies He'll guard you against everything from atom bombs to rabies Captain America we love you, Captain America you're grand Oh Spiro Agnew eat your heart out Captain America's our man Can you tell me where I might find my friend and companion He looks a little different from anything you've seen He likes to beat the bass drum for justice and salvation He's got the brains of Einstein and the bod of Mister Clean He's a lightnin' flash who'll make the dash from one coast to the other To stop a crime or lend a dime or help his aging mother Captain America we love you, Captain America you're grand Oh Spiro Agnew eat your heart out Captain America's our man Captain America's our man |
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As large as life she stood there
Kissed my cheek and called my old nickname And though several years had passed Both of us still looked quite the same I said hi relaxed a bit Then asked her how she'd been all these years She told me she was feeling fine Came to see a friend who lived up here Told me she had finished school And then went on to college for a year I asked if she had married Slowly down her cheek there came a tear She said just an itchy eye It must be the weather way up here Told her I can't stand the cold It freezes me and I can't feel my ears We talked a bit about Mobile And thought about how it has never changed I told her I was a comin' home To spend some time and hoped it wouldn't rain She asked if she could see me then And we could spend some time now and then Because I lived so far away Was still no chance why we could not be friends I drove her to the waiting plane Watched that big jet streaking through the sky Thought about the sad young girl And the time that I just saw her cry That flame must still be burning bright I think I'll catch a later flight today It's time for me to go on home And spend a day or two down by the bay |
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Straight-laced leather-faced he rolled
In like he owned the two-bit town Dollar bills bulging from his bell-bottomed jeans The population they gathered 'round Nothing this exciting since a fertilizer truck Blew a front tire and landed in the creek Everybody talkin' everybody strainin' Tryin' to get a little peek Chorus: It's just the world they'll never know Not a country fair side show Reality they'll somehow never see He's what they've tried to kill With their Bibles and their stills But he's not weird just a man that's bein' free Payin' for the gas he wickedly shouted thanks And continued on his journey all once again Just about the time a siren fast-approached and The pot bellied sheriff he whizzed right in With his self inflicted grammar started shoutin' Accusations at the long haired greasy looking ape While a local D.J. from the fifty watt station got The whole damn thing on tape Chorus: It's just the world they'll never know Not a country fair side show Reality they'll somehow never see He's what they've tried to kill With their Bibles and their stills But he's not weird just a man that's bein' free The holy roller preacher told the eager congregation That the devil had passed right through their nest But the teenage girls with their locks in curls were A talkin' 'bout that hair upon his chest Now the kids got their cookies while the preacher Saved some souls and the story spread to everyone in sight Commotion was the word and everybody heard He was gone before the night Chorus: It's just the world they'll never know Not a country fair side show Reality they'll somehow never see He's what they've tried to kill With their Bibles and their stills But he's not weird just a man that's bein' free |
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