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Jimmy Buffett - Nobody Speaks To The Captain No More Lyrics

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  • By: jimmy buffett
  • 1986
  • For gabriel garcia marquez, allie fox and phil clark
  • He was a fugitive with a pseudo name
  • Lost his mind in a hurricane
  • Coconut upside his head
  • People said hed be better dead
  • cause his glory days are gone
  • Sits on the shore with his saxophone
  • And plays
  • In another place, in another time
  • He was a soldier in his prime
  • On the battlefield, makin history
  • Young men died for his destiny
  • And their widows came each day
  • til he was forced to run away
  • From home
  • So he bought a town, but he sold the sea
  • Claimed a shallow victory
  • On an iron ship, with a wooden crew
  • They hit the reef when the moon was new
  • Now he cries himself to sleep
  • On a beach made of promises he meant to keep
  • Long ago
  • Chorus:
  • Nobody speaks to the captain no more
  • Nobody talks about the war
  • Hey what the hell were we fighting for
  • Such a long, long time ago
  • (trumpet / piccolo / saxophone instrumental)
  • And now the monkeys and the iguanas
  • They listen to his song
  • Most uncaptive audience
  • He plays to all night long
  • So the story goes, he was dressed to kill
  • When he jumped from the old mahogany mill
  • And the jungle beasts, they were heard to wail
  • As the saxophone still played the scale
  • For a man we never knew who looked like me and you
  • Long ago
  • Nobody speaks to the captain no more
  • No one is interested in settling old scores
  • Hey what they hell were we fighting for
  • Such a long, long time ago
  • Nobody speaks to the captain no more
  • No one is interested in settling old scores
  • Hey what they hell were we fighting for
  • Such a long, long time ago

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