The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful Lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

By: Jimmy Buffett 

1980 

This song is for Billy Clyde Tuggel. I hope you make it to Tahiti one day. 

-- Spoken: 

"Play Ball! (one, two, three, four)" 

"Where's my per diem? (Ladies and gentlemen, the Carl Reiner Band)" 

"Hey Bobby, where's the keys to the rent-a-car?" 

"Jimmy, Jimmy, can I open the show in Atlanta please?" 

"Warning! Don't ever start a band!" 

He worked hard all year, just wanted a few weeks alone 

But his old lady's into modelin', she can't get away from a phone 

Besides she bitches about the mosquitoes 

She says, "Down there there is nothing to do" 

Her goddamn phone never stops ringin' 

He'll try the service in a day maybe two 

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Well he's on his third drink before the wheels of the plane leave the ground 

Makin' points with the stewardess high over Long Island Sound 

She's also spending some time on the island 

Too much city madness gives her the blues 

They make a date to go dancin' and dinin' 

It seems neither has that much to lose 

Chorus: 

The weather is here I wish you were beautiful 

My thoughts aren't too clear but don't run away 

My girlfriend's a bore, my job is too dutiful 

Hell nobody's perfect would you like to play? 

I feel together today 

Well now that's just the start of a well-deserved overdue binge 

Meanwhile back in the city certain people are starting to cringe 

His lawyers are calling his parents 

His girlfriend doesn't know what to think 

His partners are studying their options 

He's just singin' and orderin' drinks 

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Chorus: 

The weather is here I wish you were beautiful 

The skies are too clear life's so easy today 

The beer is too cold, the daiquiri's too fruitiful 

No place like home when you're this far away 

I don't care what they say (I don't care) 

He's goin' back to New York pack it up and let everyone know 

It was something that he should have done such a long time ago 

Still time to start a new life in the palm trees 

Ah, Billy Clyde wasn't insane 

And if it doesn't work out there'll never be any doubt 

That the pleasure was worth all the pain 

Chorus: 

The weather is here I wish you were beautiful 

The skies are too clear life's so easy today 

The beer is too cold, the daiquiri's too fruitiful 

No place like home when you're this far away 

Time for to play 

I need time for to play 

Time for to play 

I need time for to play 

I need time for to play 

I need time for to play 

I need time for to play 

I need time for to play 

I need time for to play 

- Notes: 

Billy Clyde Tuggel was a character in the soap opera "All My Children". 

(see album dedication)