Everybody's Got A Cousin In Miami Lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Everybody's Got a Cousin in Miami 

By: Jimmy Buffett, Michael Tschudin 

1993 

--Spoken: 

"Hey Jimmy, you know anybody in Miami that can get me a passport 

real quick?" 

"Oh yeah, yeah man. I've got a cousin up there. He knows 

everthing about everything. Let's see if I've got his number 

here somewhere, yeah. No, he works out of a payphone... oh yeah. 

I've got it here. Okay. Today's international investor, 

whatever that is. Yeah, everybody's got a cousin in Miami. Here 

we go." 

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It was was ninety miles to freedom 

But they took the risk 

Though ocean was all motion 

And the wind was brisk 

The deadly gunboats never saw them 

In the pale moonlight 

They were off to Cayo Hueso 

By the dawn's early light 

The gringo in the garden called the custom's man 

They answered all his questions 

Were allowed to land 

The ladies shared a hairbrush 

And their husbands had a Coke 

And they were taken up to Krome 

To meet with there kin folk 

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Chorus: 

Everybody's got a cousin in Miami 

(Everybody's got a cousin in Miami) 

Everybody understands the impromptu 

Dancing in the heat to the beat 

That turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh) 

Everybody needs to have a dream come true 

In a third world jungle 

Not so far away 

Lives a natural drummer 

With a dream to play 

He's the brother of the lizard 

And the flying fish 

But he's enchanted by the pictures 

>From the satellite dish 

So his mama packs his bag 

Knots his red neck tie 

Send him north to her relations 

With a kiss goodbye 

He's bewildered by the plane ride 

And the immigration line 

Until he sees his Christian name 

Upon a cardboard sign 

Chorus: 

Everybody's got a cousin in Miami 

(Everybody's got a cousin in Miami) 

Everybody is an aborigine 

Dancing in the heat to the beat 

It 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, so 

close. History lesson, history lesson." 

It's hard to believe this city started as a trading post 

Home to the Seminole pirate and pioneer 

Between the river of grass and the old mosquito coast 

Before the railroad claimed the southernmost frontier 

I am umbilically connected to the temperate zone 

It brought me life, it brought me love 

I never have outgrown 

Brought me one too many nights along that Biscayne shore 

And one too many mornings in the Grove drugstore 

And one way or the other we're all refugees 

Livin' out this easy life below the banyan trees 

Smoothing off the rougher edges of the culture clash 

We've got a style we've got a look 

We've got that old panache 

Chorus: 

Everybody's got a cousin in Miami 

(Everybody's got a cousin in Miami) 

Everybody understands the impromptu 

Dancing in the heat to the beat 

It turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh) 

Everybody needs to have a dream come true 

--Spoken: 

"I do, I do. Let's take it down boys. Down south to those 

little latitudes. Ya ya, ya ya. Thank you Robert. 

Chorus: 

Everybody's got a cousin in Miami 

(Everybody's got a cousin in Miami) 

Everybody is an aborigine 

Dancing in the heat to the beat 

It turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh) 

Under the stars in the bars down by the sea 

Oh me now 

Everybody's got a cousin in Miami 

(Everybody's got a cousin in Miami) 

Everybody has to have that impromptu 

--Spoken: 

"What are we doing now?" 

Dancing in the heat to the beat 

It 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 the 

equator. I didn't know whether I was up or down. I couldn't 

tell the difference. It was hot and we were rockin'. And the 

Coral Reefers gathered around me and they said: We want a raise 

or we're going to quit. And that's when I woke up. So play 

boys, play."