Desperation Samba Lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Desperation samba (halloween in tijuana) 

By: jimmy buffett, will jennings, timothy b. schmit 

1985 

This song brings to mind two things. first, an image of robert mitchum 

Standing in the doorway of a bar in tijuana, and second, a line by 

Thomas mcguane, my brother-in-law, from his book, panama, 

"the night wrote a check the morning couldn't cash." 

- used by permission of author 

Halloween in tijuana 

Full moon in my eyes 

I wonder how in the hell I got here 

Without a disguise 

Should I take this last step 

Or turn myself around 

Or follow my intuition into that border town 

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Yo quiero a bailar en mexico [i want to dance in mexico] 

We do the desperation samba con nos amigos [...with our friends] 

Yo quiero a bailar en mexico 

We do the desperation samba con nos amigos 

Pretty girls they beckon 

From their rooms above 

Skeletons are dancing 

In the name of love 

Don't know where I'm goin' 

I don't like where I've been 

There may be no exit 

But hell I'm going in 

Yo quiero a bailar en mexico 

We do the desperation samba con nos amigos 

Yo quiero a bailar en mexico 

We do the desperation samba con nos amigos 

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I hear the people singing that same old haunting tune 

I drink because I know it's me against the moon 

Yo quiero a bailar en mexico 

We do the desperation samba con nos amigos 

Yo quiero a bailar en mexico 

We do the desperation samba con nos amigos 

-- spoken: 

"tss, tss tss" 

"hey, psst amigo!" 

Ooh ooh ooh ooh 

Ooh ooh ooh ooh 

Yo quiero a bailar en mexico 

We do the desperation samba con nos amigos 

Yo quiero a bailar en mexico 

We do the desperation samba con nos amigos 

- notes: 

Background vocals: timothy b. schmit, harry stinson 

Featuring reggie young on gut string guitar and 

Harrison ford on the bullwhip