Jimmy
Buffett "Far Side of the World"
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The Lyrics for "Far
Side of the World" are available here
Release Date: March 19, 2002
Track Listing:
1. Blue Guitar - Roger Guth,
Peter Mayer
2. Mademoiselle Voulez-Vous Danser
- by Lennie
Gallant
3. Autour De Rocher - Jimmy
Buffett, Henri Ledee, Leon Ledee, Marcel Limodin,
Jean-Jacques Kraif
4. Savannah Fare You Well - by
Hugh
Prestwood
5. All the Ways I Want You - by
Bruce
Cockburn
6. Last Man Standing - by Mac McAnally, Jimmy Buffett
7. What If The Hokey-Pokey Is All It
Really is About - Jimmy Buffett, Mac
MacAnally, C. Macak, T. Baker, L. Laprise
8. Altered Boy - Jimmy
Buffett, Wayne Jobson
9. USS Zydecoldsmobile - by Sonny
Landreth
10. Someday I Will - Jimmy Buffett, Matt Betton
11. Far Side of the
World - Jimmy Buffett
12. Tonight I Just Need My Guitar
- Jimmy Buffett, Mac MacAnally
Producer: Russ Titelman (Eric
Clapton, Randy Newman, James Taylor)
Notes: This is an Enhanced CD,
which contains both regular audio tracks and
multimedia computer files. Includes footage of
the recording sessions, and home video of Jimmy's
trip to Africa.
Personnel includes:
Jimmy Buffett, vocals
Sonny Landreth, guitar
Jim Horn, horn
Stewart Duncan, fiddle
The Coral Reefer Band:
Michael Utley, keyboards, accordian
Robert Greenidge, steel drums
Ralph MacDonald, percussions
Roger Guth, drums
Peter Mayer, guitar, vocals
Jim Mayer, bass guitar, vocals
Mac McAnally, guitar, vocals
Amy Lee, saxophone
Tom Mitchell, saxophone
John Lovell, trumpet
Doyle Grisham, steel guitar
Tina Gullickson, vocals
Nadirah Shakoor, vocals
Track
Notes:
"Far Side of the World" - title track
written by Jimmy inspired by his trip to Africa
in late December 2000.
"U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile" - is a cover
of a Sonny Landreth song and is on the album
"Levee Town". Sonny plays
guitar on this remake.
"All The Ways I Want You" is a cover of
a Bruce Cockburn song, available on the album
"Dart to the Heart"
"Blue Guitar" - a cover of a Roger Guth
song. This song is on Peter Mayer's album "Romeo's Garage", and it is also on
Roger Guth's "Scotch".
"Last Man Standing" - written by Mac
McAnally.
"Mademoiselle Voulez-Vous Danser" - a
cover of a song written by Canadian singer Lennie Gallant. This song is available
on the album "Open Window" (1994)
"Savannah Fare You Well" - written by Hugh Prestwood
"We had a few
problems with our new album,
We were all set to bring it out
but then unfortunately before the attack,
only I would take a picture in a turban
on a camel in Morocco.
The world changed and so did the album
cover
and unfortunately the way things as we
know
our lives have been disrupted and so was
ours.
I thought it was the right thing to do
and I'll stand by that decision.
It will be out in March, it is done and
it's good"
-- Jimmy Buffett, October 13th, 2001
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The original artwork for the new album is
pictured here:
The Lyrics for "Far
Side of the World" are available here
11. "Far Side of the World"
by Jimmy Buffett, 2001
Lyrics Transcribed by Rick Garner
Ramadan is over,
The new moon shown her face,
I'm halfway round the planet,
In a most unlikely place.
Following my songlines,
Through bamboo shacks and shops
Behind a jitney packed like sardines,
With bananas piled on top.
I ran away from politics,
It's too bizarre at home.
Away I flew, tuned in the blue
Maybe Amsterdam or Rome.
Driven by a stewardess,
With Spain somewhere below.
On the threshold of adventure,
God I do love this job so.
Now I make my way,
Down that big board game
Up and down that Spanish highway,
Where things remain the same.
Girls tease the boys,
and the boys tease girls
I'm heading out this morning,
For the Far Side of the World.
Oh I believe in songlines
Obvious and not
I'd ridden them like camels
To some most unlikely spots.
They follow cross the ocean
Through mountains and some moon
And tonight out to this dessert
Where I sit atop this dune.
I was destined for this vantage point
Which is so far from the Sea
I've lived it in the pages of Saint-Exupery
From Paris to Tunisia
Casablanca to Dekar
I was riding long before I flew
Through the wind and sand and stars.
Caravan, fife at home
To Timbuktu, a jillion long
Sleepin' bag and battle flag
Were coiled and furled
Hey, that's the way it happens
on the Far Side of the World!
Let's Go!
Sunset framed by lightening bolts
Pours a lasting memory,
and a ton of tiny twinkin' lights
adorn the sausage tree.
While the embers from the log file
They flicker, fly, and twirl
Then drift off toward the cosmos
From the Far Side of the World.
Well it's Christmas and my birthday
and so to that extent
the Masai, not the wise men
Are circling my tent.
I teach them how to play guitar
They show me how to dance
We've got rum from the Carribean
And burgundy from France.
New Year's Eve in Zanzibar
With Babbo and his boys
High up on the rooftop
You can relish all the noise.
They are dancing on the table
People bouncin' like gazelles
2-0-0-1 is ushered in
With air raid horns and bells.
Life is I could dance
Livin' out my second chance.
Cobras and sleepin' bags are coiled and curled
That's the way it happens on the Far Side of the
World.
Back at home, it's afternoon
Six thousand miles away.
It will still be there when I get through
With ending this soiree
There are jobs and chores and questions
And plates I have to twirl,
But tonight I'll take my chances,
On the Far Side of the World.
Hey, That's the way it happens,
On the Far Side of the World.
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