Living & Dying In 3/4 Time

Saxophones
By: jimmy buffett
1974
I cut my teeth on gumbo rock, benny stillman and dr. john
Sweet erma thomas and frogman henry
Used to boogie woogie all night long
Though i love rock n' roll the acoustic guitar
Was the only way i had of becomin' a star
I'm doin' really nice and travellin' around
But they won't play my record in my old home town

Chorus:
But if i had saxophones
Yeah, big baritone cleanin' up the muddy breaks
If i had saxophones
I could get some recognition from that mobile, alabama d.j.

Livin' by the ocean, sometimes i get the notion
To take my janey downtown
We hang out in a funky little bar
They call it the "shipwreck lounge"
Well we get kind of drunk and we play rock n' roll
Grabbin' everybody right down in his soul
When we get to cookin' somethin's still wrong
There's still somethin' missin' from them good ole songs

Chorus:
But if we had saxophones
Big baritone cleanin' up the muddy breaks
If we had saxophones
I could make that joint shimmy like a big california earthquake

Yeah if we had saxophones
Yeah, big baritone cleanin' up the muddy breaks
If we had saxophones
I could get some recognition from that mobile, alabama d.j.

Brahma fear
By: jimmy buffett
1974
I'd like to ride the rodeo
But i've got brahma fear
So i'll just stick to aeroplanes
Gently pop my ears

Drank a lot a' whiskey
It gives me such a glow
It makes me quite immobile
But it lets my feelin's show

And i'm somewhere below the spotlight
Somewhere below the ground
You dig deep enough you might find me
Find me and you've found my sound

Yes i own a whaler boat
It slides across the sea
And some folks say i'm part of it
And i know, it's part of me

And when i'm feelin' solitaire
It lets me be alone
And when i want to habitate
It carries me back home

And i'm somewhere below the sunlight
Somewhere upon the sea
You dig deep enough you might find me
Find me 'cause that's where i'll be

Yes i drank a lot of whiskey
It gives me such a glow
It makes me quite immobile
Ah, but it lets my feelin's show

Coda:
Yes it makes me quite immobile
Ah, but it lets my feelin's show

West nashville grand ballroom gown
By: jimmy buffett
1974
Standin' on side of the highway 4 exit
A lady in tie-dye, a bag by her side
Not really lookin' like anything special
Saw tennessee tags and she waved for a ride

Sat right beside me as the meter hit sixty
'splainin' her travels and her family background
When she got through i could not help but thinkin'
She's a long way from a west nashville grand ballroom gown

Chorus:
Father had money and her mother had love
Channelled entirely to her dear sister dove
Twenty-two years in society's plan
Was cancelled in the swing of her dear mother's hand

Six hours later we hit cincinnati
Yawnin', she woke and then asked where we were
When she found out, she said i must be goin'
This close to nashville was too close for her

So i stopped by the roadside and i gave her five dollars
She took it then kissed me and gave me a note
She told me just to read it then mail it in nashville
On old loose-leaf paper to her mother she wrote

Chorus:
She said, "mama i'm fine if you happen to wonder
I don't have much money but i still get around
I haven't made church in near thirty-six sundays
So fuck all those west nashville grand ballroom gowns"

Yes she's a long way from a west nashville grand ballroom gown

God's own drunk
By: lord buckley
1974
"well, like i explained to y'all before i ain't no drinkin' man. i tried it once, and it got me highly irregular and i swore i'd never do it again. but i promised my brother-in-law that i'd
P and watch his still while he went into town to vote.

It was up there on the mountain where the map said it would be. friends let me tell you one thing though, it wadn't no ordinary still. it stood up that mountainside like... like a huge golden op
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God's yellar moon was a' shinin' on the cool clear evenin', god's little lanterns just a' twinklin' on and off in the heavens and, like i explained to you once before, i ain't no drinkin' man, b
Emptation got the best of me, and i took a slash... (wshew!... woah...) that yellar whiskey runnin' down my throat like honeydew vine water, and i took another slash. took another and another an
Ther. 'fore you knew it i'd downed one whole jug o' that shit and commenced to get hot flashes.

Goosepimples was runnin' up and down my body and a feelin' came over me like, somethin' i'd never experienced before, it's like, like i was in love,

("why don't we have a little love mike [utley]")

In love for the first time, with anything that moved... animate, in-animate it didn't matter. it's like there's a great neon sign flashin' on and off in my brain sayin, "jimmy buffett there
Reat day a comin'..." 'cause i was drunk.

Now i wadn't, uh, knee-crawlin', slip-slidin', reggy-youngin', commode-huggin' drunk, i was god's own drunk, and a fearless man; and that's when i first saw the bear.

He was a kodiak lookin' fella 'bout 19 feet tall he rambled up over the hill 'spectin' me to do one of two things: flip or fly, i didn't do either one. it hung him up. he starts sniffin' 'round
Dy tryin' to smell fear, but he ain't gonna smell no fear, 'cause i'm god's own drunk and a fearless man. it hung him up. he looked me right in my eyes and my eyes was a lot redder than his was.
Ung him up.

So i approached him and i said, "mr. bear, i love every hair on your 27 acre body. i know you got a lotta friends over there on the other side of the hill. there's ole' rear bear, tall bear
Ddy bear, kelly jair, relly bear, smelly the bear, smokey the bear, pokey the bear; i want you to go back over there tonight and tell 'em i'm feelin' right. you tell 'em i love each and every on
'em like a brother and a sister; but if they give me any trouble tonight, i'm gonna run every goddamned one of 'em off the hill."

He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think. neither did i, but, being charitable and cautious, well hell, i approached him again. i said, "mr. bear, you know in the eyes of t
Rd, we're both beasts when it comes right down to it. so i want you to be my buddy, 'buddy bear.'" so i took ole' buddy bear by his island sized paw and i led him over to the still. now he'
Sniffin' around that thing 'cause he's smellin' somethin' good. i gave him one of them jugs of honeydew vine water, he downed it upright, (looked like one of them damn bears in the circus sippin
Parilly in the moonlight.) i gave him another and another and another 'fore i knew it, he'd downed eight of 'em and commenced to do the "bear dance." two sniffs, a snort, a fly, a turn
A grunt; and it was so simple like the jitterbug it plumb evaded me.

And we worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar and i's awful tired, went over to the hillside, and i laid down, went to sleep, slept for four hours, and dreamt me some tremulous dreams and whe
Oke up, oh, there was god's yellar moon a' shinin' on the clear cool evenin'. and god's little lanterns just a' twinklin' on and off in the heavens, and my buddy the bear was a' missin'... yeah,
Want to know somethin' else friends and neighbors, so was that still.

-- spoken:
"that's a take. wait, could uh.....you missed it?"

Brand new country star
By: jimmy buffett
1974
Well he outgrew his sequined suit
Sold his trailways bus
Let his hair get a little too long
His ducktails bit the dust

His custom made, pearl-inlaid
Guitar slipped from his hand
And in its place a new electrical one
He had flown in from japan

Chorus:
'cause he's a cheeseburger-eatin', abandoned sunday-meetin'
Brand new country star
He rides around in a lincoln continental
No steerhorns on his car
Oh the record men say, "he's the livin' end
They're gonna spin him right to the top
Yeah he's a hot roman candle from the texas panhandle
He can either go country or pop"

He's got a good ol' friend name o' "texas ben"
Tells him all the spots to play
And a sweet little lady, he calls her "sexy sadie"
She's a' with the boy night and day

They're gonna open a chain of fancy bowlin' lanes
The first one in his old home town
And on ribbon-cuttin' day they'll come from miles away
The folks'll all gather 'round

Chorus:
And sing, he's a cheeseburger-eatin', abandoned sunday meetin'
Brand new country star
Yeah he rides around in his lincoln continental
No steerhorns on his car
Oh the record men say, "he's the livin' end"
They're gonna spin him right to the top
Yeah he's a hot roman candle from the texas panhandle
He can either go country or pop"
I mean, he can either go country or pop

Yodels: "a' yodel layeeo a' leedle layeeo a' leedle layee"

Livington's gone to texas
By: jimmy buffett
1974
Nothin' is different
Nothin' has changed at all
Livingston's gone to texas
They say he had a ball

They say he learned to be a cowboy
They say he learned to rope and ride
But i wonder if he ever
Thinks about the tears his woman cried

Now honey, won't you let me
Try and make you smile
You loved him as if he were your husband
Now he'll be gone awhile

Wrote he had to see the country
On starry nights he wished you were there
And so it shows wherever he goes
Deep inside you know he really cares

And nothin' is different
Nothin' has changed at all
Livingston's still in texas
The snow's about to fall