Jimmy Buffett Lyrics - David Allan Coe

The Jimmy Buffer Song 

David Allen Coe 

Prelude: 

This song is for all the people that's been reviewing our records and say we sound a lot like Jimmy Buffet because we live in Key West and use Congo drums in our songs. For all those people that live in Key West and are under the misconception that Mr. Buffet live in Key West and we'd like to say there's a lot of things in Key West, as a matter of fact, there's 

Chorus: 

There's sailboats and conk shells and palm trees galore, 

But Jimmy Buffet doesn't live in Key West anymore 

Sister spare change has a bumper sticker on the door 

Says Jimmy Buffet doesn't live here any more 

Verse 1: 

Hey smugglers need those Buffet songs, snitching on the sly 

Bringing heat where it's already to damn hot to die 

Son of a son of bitch, what's all that bullshit for 

Jimmy Buffet doesn't' live in Key West anymore 

Verse 2 

Sailing to the Caribbean Jimmy might well be 

Pictures up in Rollin' Stone for all the world to see 

The rich keep getting richer, the poor they just stay poor 

Jimmy buffet doesn't' live in Key West anymore 

Verse 3 

Now Jimmy's moved to Malibu with all those other stars 

He's not down at in Duval Street hangin' out in bars 

All them God damned tourist, got to be a bore. 

Jimmy Buffet doesn't live here any more 

Verse 4 

So don't tell me I sound like Jimmy Buffet 

Just because I got that island beat 

Jimmy might have grown up on the ocean 

Me, I kinda grown up on the street 

Music's just a way of life, me I'm liv'in free 

Don't lay all that Key West Jimmy Buffet shit on me 

Verse 5 

Now Divers Do It Deeper must have really made them mad 

Some of them reviewers said it really sounded bad 

Well they liked Margaritaville, me I liked it too 

Someday Jimmy, why don't we just both get drunk and screw 

Oh those creepy Mother Fuckers that think music is a whore 

Tell that you just don't live in Key West anymore 

Chorus: 

There's sailboats and conk shells and palm trees galore, 

But Jimmy buffet doesn't live in Key West anymore 

Sister spare change has a bumper sticker on the door 

Says Jimmy Buffet doesn't live here any more