Sometimes I see me as old manatee
Headin’ south as the waters grow colder
Tries to steer clear of the hum-drum so near
It cuts prop scars (BOX CARS) deep in his shoulder
But that’s how it goes (that’s how it goes), right to the end
Though his body’s quite flexible, that barnacle brain don’t bend
Where no bird flies by my window
No ship is tied to my tree
I've been meaning to post this for a while now...
1st Desdemona... ROTHLMAO!! (thanks) your 'parrott chute' comic made my day!!!!
2nd... a couple years ago at Buffett here in Dallas we were standing in line for an (adult) bevarage and I overheard a 'keet singing " Why dont we get drunk at school..."
I thought I was gonna (p) my pants I laughed so hard!!
~PHBaby
-Kandy (& Doreen)
" I'll take the Deck of a Ship anytime! "
**Loving Life ~ in 3/4 Time!**
PalmettoSon wrote:Am I the only one who takes issue with the lyrics to Volcano listed on margartaville.com?
My girl quickly say to me,
"Mon you better watch your feet."
Lava come down soft and hot.
"You better lava me now or lava me not.
Shouldn't that be love-a me now or love-a me not?
No time to count what I'm worth,
cause I just left the planet Earth.
Where I go I hope there's rhum.
Not to worry mon soon come.
I always thought this one was monsoon, not mon soon, but then again neither one makes more sense than the other.
It's always sounded like "lava me" to me and given the context of the song, I think it makes perfect sense. As a previous poster said, he's just making a pun.
"Soon come" is a Jamaican expression meaning one will be back. However, it doesn't mean that one will actually come promptly. In this instance he's referring to the "mon" with the rum.
My younger keet says "I spent 4 lonely days in a brown 'hilly haze'. It always makes me laugh when he sings it that way but for 3 or 4 years he has. By the way, a friend of mine who is not a parrothead, went to Vegas this last weekend and as per my reguest, went to Margaritaville and said she could not believe how "hoppin" it was. I failed to show her the three buffettesque tattoos I have, as it was at work. I just said "Yea I knew it would be!!!". She was celerbrating her 30th b-day. I just celebrated my 40th so she is but a child!! Anyway, my keet calling it a brown "hilly haze" is so cute.
At the frequent request of my 4y.o. (yeah, he really has to twist my arm) MMIM is getting a lot of play in our house these days. So I was tickled to hear him singing along with the chorus on Tiki Bar, and the last line came out like this.. "Come on in and open up your mouth"
“Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.”
- Kaiser Welhelm
"The call is a loud wulli-wulli, and there is much twittering at the drinking holes."
For a long time I was singing "writing fan letters to guys named Vinny", assuming they were likely to have pencil thin mustaches. I guess I didn't know about Sky's neice Penny.
My biggest fear is that when I die, my wife will sell all my Buffett stuff for what I said I paid for it!
PA PAR8 HED wrote:For a long time I was singing "writing fan letters to guys named Vinny",
assuming they were likely to have pencil thin mustaches. I guess I didn't know about Sky's neice Penny.
Had to share this...we had FSOTW in the car's CD player today, taking the keet to preschool. "Blue Guitar" was playing, and when the lyrics "I once knew a man, showed me the sleight of hand..." came on, my 5 y.o. daughter asked,
"Why did he show Jimmy his Spider Pants?"
That visual gave me a good long laugh!
She speaks a language all her own, that I cannot discover...
Smart woman wrote:Had to share this...we had FSOTW in the car's CD player today, taking the keet to preschool. "Blue Guitar" was playing, and when the lyrics "I once knew a man, showed me the sleight of hand..." came on, my 5 y.o. daughter asked,
"Why did he show Jimmy his Spider Pants?"
That visual gave me a good long laugh!
That's cute.
"In the morning when you rise, aren't you glad to be alive?"
The first few times I heard Honey Do, I thought he was saying I sat on the beach until my body guard fried, instead of I sat on the beach until my body got fried.
My friend called me from a wedding last weekend. She was wasted and the DJ was playing Margaritaville, so she called the biggest Buffett fan she knew and sang along at the top on her lungs "...searching for my lost sugar and salt".
In Volcano, it has always sounded to me like Jimmy says, "My girl, Quigley, said to me..." instead of, "My girl quickly said to me..."
PA PAR8 HED wrote:For a long time I was singing "writing fan letters to guys named Vinny", assuming they were likely to have pencil thin mustaches. I guess I didn't know about Sky's neice Penny.
D'oh. Guess you can still learn something new every day. I've never heard of Sky's niece, Penny. I've always thought it was writing fan letters, disguised me as Penny. Thought he was embarrased to be writing fan letters, so disguised them as though from a girl.
rickcrystal wrote:ok answer this for me... during the intro to the "weather is here, wish you were beautiful" i swear i hear somene say the "N" word. turn up the song when you hear all that chattering in the begining of the song and it sounds like someone says it. does anyone else hear it?
Here's what I got:
Play Ball!
2,3,4
Where's my per diem
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Coral Rhymer Band (this one has always thrown me)
Fingers gonna bat (I think this is where the confustion lies)
Hey, Bobby where're the keys to the rent-a-car
Jimmy, Jimmy, can I open the show in Atlanta, please
Ignore me, don't ever start a band
Hope that helps
I couldn't quite understand it, but I thought I was Jimmy, can I get tickets to the show in Atlanta, pleease?
And to this day I think "losing weight well that's me" instead of "without speed".
My ship she has a rudder, but I don’t know where to steer
I understood he was saying "snuff queen" but through the years, I changed my mind what a SNUFF queen was....
Twenty years ago, I thought it was someone who chewed snuff, possibly of a cowgirl persuasion.
Then ten years ago, I heard it was an old pirate term meaning, prostitute.
Just tonight, moments ago, I read that a snuff queen is really this:
A snuff queen in Nashville in the early 70s was a term for a country and western groupie who hung around country artists looking to have sex with them.
I have just earned my Ph.D. from Margaritaville U as now my thesis is complete.
Hi Beach Blonde... I'll add my perspective... I heard from a police officer about 20 years ago that "snuff movies" were really hard core pornography, in which the "actors" were high on drugs and didn't know they were in a porno flick. So, I thought a snuff queen was someone who had been a popular star of a snuff movie. Guess I really had my mind in the gutter all along.
I thought that snuff queens were in p*** where they got killed during sex...
My ship she has a rudder, but I don’t know where to steer
(thanks) your 'parrott chute' comic made my day!!!!
I always figured WalMart must have had a Slurpee machine, guess not 
