Going Where The Wind Takes You (narration) Lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Well if you wanna go down that song line 

It's pretty apparent to me where I got the idea to 

write ballads kinda based on Wino there 

He went to Paris, [?] at 40, 12 old men 

African friend and the list goes on 

So we're getting down to the bottom of the treasure chest here 

and we have a few things left to play for ya' 

And uhm 

So let's just dig around down here 

In the bottom of the Mobile pile and see 

Oh, Oh 

Here's one, let me get this out 

And as you might guess, this one probably needs a story too 

To tell you where this song came from 

Whoever said you can't ever go home? 

Sometimes you have to go home 

even of you don't want to 

That's a little lesson I learnt around this time 

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As a sailor, you go where the wind takes you 

I intended for it to blow me far from the port city of Mobile 

to seek fortune and fame 

Still, my embarkation point was also my disembarking point 

The winds had taken me back to the starting line 

I figured the Universe had a reason for that 

So i just went along with that and wound up 

in the studio with Milton and Travis, 

where the actual road to success began 

Milton was the wizard who found me work around town 

became my first manager and blazed the trail that 

eventually led to Nashville 

Though Mardi Gras and the new world started in Mobile' 

It was not a town prone to a nightlife reputation 

Other than those two weeks before Lent 

[?] in New Orleans was where we went to kick up our heels 

Mobile tended to move to it's own 

beat and that hasn't changed to this day 

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it drifts along at a timeless, predictable cadence 

But there were actually two big events on a national scale 

besides Mardi Gras 

The senior bowl game and the America's Junior Miss pageant 

Southerners love beauty pageants and since Atlantic City 

claimed the Miss America pageant 

Little Mobile somehow attracted the 

America's Junior Miss pageant to town 

Milton was also very active in civic functions and tried to use 

his influence to get a home town talent on the Junior MIss 

pageant and national television 

He pitched the idea to the people who ran the pageant 

that it would be great to feature a local boy, me, on the show 

Well, they were not seeing it his way, 

this was a big deal to showcase Mobile and 

they wanted stars and I was just a bar singer 

Milton did however get me a gig, 

He explained to me that I wasn't going to get my national tv 

debut as part of the pageant 

But, he did get me a job playing to the contestants 

at breakfast, the morning of the final day of the show 

Let's just say that back in those days, I did not do a lot of 

breakfast shows 

So when Milton revealed to me that I would be performing at 7am 

I kinda flinched for a moment, but only a moment 

Because when you're down at the bottom of the success ladder, 

you better do anything you can to 

get yourself a few rungs up that ladder 

seperate from the pack 

So, I got up at 6 am, 

Tuned my 12 string, drank a cafe au lait, ate a few beignets 

then played breakfast for the Junior Miss contestants 

They seemed to like it 

So here's a live version of that infamous breakfast buffet in Mobile 

wih yours truly and the Junior Miss 

contestants singing along to Caiifornia Dreaming 

And by the way I don't think I've ever done another 

breakfast gig other than maybe the Today Show since then...