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I think it sounds more like "Fingers is on deck"
It fits better with the basebell reference

PalmettoSon wrote: 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 heard Jimmy do a radio interview before this song came out where he joked about one of his people (road manager?) having a New York accent and that when he said Coral Reefer band, it sounded like he was saying Carl Riener band.

I always thought at the beginning of margaritaville that they were saying "all of the two-bits covered with oil." i don't know where i got that one fun, but my family made fun of me for it.

Beach Blonde wrote:snuff queen.....(WDWGD&S)

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.

Going thru old posts, I came across this. Now, I sing a *LOT* of karaoke, and there isn't a Jimmy Buffett song out there that I can't do or won't try, at least once. "WDWGD&S" is one of my standards, but I always sang the words "snow queen" instead of "snuff queen".....a snow queen being a frigid b¡tch who one would probably have to get good and drunk before she'd agree to go to bed with you. While all the various meanings for "snuff queen" may be true most people have never heard of them and you can spend far too much time trying to explain.

I'll stick with "snow queen". And it's not really a change, it's merely an unpublished revision.........

-"BB"-

"Play Ball!! (one, two, three, four)"
"Where's my per diem? (Ladies and gentlemen, the Carl Reiner Band)"
"Hey Bobby, where's the keys to the rent-a-car?"
"Jimmy, Jimmy, can I open the show in Atlanta please?"
"Warning! Don't ever start a band!"

urlcenter wrote:"Play Ball!! (one, two, three, four)"
"Where's my per diem? (Ladies and gentlemen, the Carl Reiner Band)"
"Hey Bobby, where's the keys to the rent-a-car?"
"Jimmy, Jimmy, can I open the show in Atlanta please?"
"Warning! Don't ever start a band!"

You forgot "Fingers, GO TO BED!!!" I can't remember where it comes in I think it's either between the first 2 or the second 2

We still sing "Yada.....save a tuna....." partially as a misunderstood lyric, partially as a lack of French language speaking.

PalmettoSon wrote:

Gumbo wrote:When I was around 8-9 years old and heard "Come Monday" on the radio, I always thought he was saying "Commaday". I had no idea what that meant, but I sang it all the same.

I was about twelve and couldn't figure out what a "brown elly haze" was. It wasn't until later that I realized it was a "brown L.A. haze"

That's too funny! As a parakeet, I had been hearing that song since birth, but I was 15 before I realized it wasn't " brown, ugly haze".

Took me a while to figure out Marie Laveaux in I will Play For Gumbo.

palmettopirate wrote:Took me a while to figure out Marie Laveaux in I will Play For Gumbo.

You must not be old enough to remember this song, which was where I first heard about Madame Laveau.



-"BB"-

Earlier this spring/summer I had begun hearing Jake Owen's song Beachin.

I was hearing and of course singing White sand, cocaine, koozie in my hand, just a summertime strolling

I had the feeling that something wasn't quite right there, so I googled it, and found out
that it was supposed to be White sand, cold can, koozie in my hand, just a summertime strolling

I still sing cocaine

Bicycle Bill wrote:

palmettopirate wrote:Took me a while to figure out Marie Laveaux in I will Play For Gumbo.

You must not be old enough to remember this song, which was where I first heard about Madame Laveau.

I don't think it's an indication that palmettopirate didn't know who Marie Laveau is, just that they had a hard time making out the lyrics. She also puts in an appearance in Buffett's cover of Mary Gauthier's "Wheel Inside the Wheel".

I misunderstand many lyrics. However, for the longest time, I thought he was searching for his "lost sugar and salt". My wife, who is not a huge Buffett fan but puts up with me, finally told me it's shaker of salt.

Oh believe me, I'm plenty old enough to remember stuff from 1971, and well before that. Well except that my memory ain't what it used to be as I age. The lyric things was just hard to understand at first. I remember Watching Sky's niece Penny in black and white on our one and only TV. That was well before '71.

in Havana Daydreaming i've always sung " stashed his cash in Ecuador, bought a good souvenir"

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[/quote]

I always thought it was,

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Carl Reiner band!

This is embarrassing. I just realized today that I had it wrong.

I thought it was "If you're gonna see the morning sun", but it's really "Kid you're gonna see the morning sun".

That makes the song so much better.

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.

I always thought that Jimmy was speaking with a Jamaica accent thus turning "love me" to "love-a me". Also with "Not to worry mon soon come" changing from "mine soon come" to "mon soon come".

bravedave wrote:Stop me if I've told this one before...


too late

During Boat Drinks, when he sings, "I gotta fly to st. somewhere"
I thought he was saying, "I've got a plot of sand somewhere"
as if remembering a forgotten beach house or island hideaway.


I like mine better

GREAT TBT thread

For many years, I thought I was hearing "I got a pot of sane somewhere"

Lyric lessons: this Jersey gal now knows the meaning of

barkentine
remora
Pirogue pole

...and others I cannot recall now.

Thanks, Jimmy!