Jimmy Buffett - Everybody's Got A Cousin In Miami Lyrics
Everybodys got a cousin in miamiBy: jimmy buffett, michael tschudin1993--spoken:Hey jimmy, you know anybody in miami that can get me a passportReal quick?Oh yeah, yeah man. Ive got a cousin up there. he knowsEverthing about everything. lets see if Ive got his numberHere somewhere, yeah. no, he works out of a payphone...oh yeah.Ive got it here. okay. todays international investor,Whatever that is. yeah, everybodys got a cousin in miami. hereWe go.It was was ninety miles to freedomBut they took the riskThough ocean was all motionAnd the wind was briskThe deadly gunboats never saw themIn the pale moonlightThey were off to cayo huesoBy the dawns early lightThe gringo in the garden called the customs manThey answered all his questionsWere allowed to landThe ladies shared a hairbrushAnd their husbands had a cokeAnd they were taken up to kromeTo meet with there kin folkChorus:Everybodys got a cousin in miami(everybodys got a cousin in miami)Everybody understands the impromptuDancing in the heat to the beatThat turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)Everybody needs to have a dream come trueIn a third world jungleNot so far awayLives a natural drummerWith a dream to playHes the brother of the lizardAnd the flying fishBut hes enchanted by the pictures>from the satellite dishSo his mama packs his bagKnots his red neck tieSend him north to her relationsWith a kiss goodbyeHes bewildered by the plane rideAnd the immigration lineUntil he sees his christian nameUpon a cardboard signChorus:Everybodys got a cousin in miami(everybodys got a cousin in miami)Everybody is an aborigineDancing in the heat to the beatIt turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)Everybody want to win that lottery--spoken:And the winning numbers are...7, 6, 5, 3, 7, 9. uh, close, soClose. history lesson, history lesson.Its hard to believe this city started as a trading postHome to the seminole pirate and pioneerBetween the river of grass and the old mosquito coastBefore the railroad claimed the southernmost frontierI am umbilically connected to the temperate zoneIt brought me life, it brought me loveI never have outgrownBrought me one too many nights along that biscayne shoreAnd one too many mornings in the grove drugstoreAnd one way or the other were all refugeesLivin out this easy life below the banyan treesSmoothing off the rougher edges of the culture clashWeve got a style weve got a lookWeve got that old panacheChorus:Everybodys got a cousin in miami(everybodys got a cousin in miami)Everybody understands the impromptuDancing in the heat to the beatIt turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)Everybody needs to have a dream come true--spoken:I do, I do. lets take it down boys. down south to thoseLittle latitudes. ya ya, ya ya. thank you robert.Chorus:Everybodys got a cousin in miami(everybodys got a cousin in miami)Everybody is an aborigineDancing in the heat to the beatIt turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)Under the stars in the bars down by the seaOh me nowEverybodys got a cousin in miami(everybodys got a cousin in miami)Everybody has to have that impromptu--spoken:What are we doing now?Dancing in the heat to the beatIt turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)Everybody needs to have a dream come true--spoken:I do. I do. I had this dream the other day. I was down on theEquator. I didnt know whether I was up or down. I couldntTell the difference. it was hot and we were rockin. and theCoral reefers gathered around me and they said: we want a raiseOr were going to quit. and thats when I woke up. so playBoys, play.
