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Everybody's Got A Cousin In Miami
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Jimmy Buffett
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It was ninety miles to freedom but they took the risk
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Though the ocean was all motion and the wind was brisk
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The deadly gunboats never saw them in the pale moonlight
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They were off to Cayo Hueso by the dawns early light
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The gringo in the garden called the customs man
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They answered all his questions, were allowed to land
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The ladies shared a hairbrush and their husbands had a coke
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Then they were taken up to Krome to meet with their kin folk
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[Chorus:]
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Everybody's got a cousin in Miami
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Everybody understands the impromptu
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Dancing in the heat to the beat
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That turns your clothing clammy
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Everybody needs to have a dream come true
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In a third world jungle not so far away
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Lives a natural drummer with a dream to play
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He's the brother of the lizard and the flying fish
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But he's been enchanted by the pictures
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From the satellite dish
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So his mama packs his bags, knots his red neck tie
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Sends him north to her relations with a kiss good-bye
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He's bewildered by the plane ride and the immigration line
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Until he sees his Christian name upon a cardboard sign
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Everybody's got a cousin in Miami
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Everybody is an Aborigine
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Dancing in the heat to the beat
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That turns your clothing clammy
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Everybody wants to win that lottery
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It's hard to believe the city started as a trading post
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Home to the Seminole, pirate and pioneer
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Between the river of grass and the old mosquito coast
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Before the railroad claimed the southernmost frontier
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I am umbilically connected to the temperate zone
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It brought me life, it brought me love
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I never have outgrown
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It brought me one too many nights along that Biscayne shore
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And one too many mornings in the Grove Drug Store
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In one way or the other we're all refugees
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Living out this easy life below the banyan trees
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Smoothing off the rougher edges of the culture clash
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We got a style, we got a look
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We got that old panache
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[Chorus]
Come Monday - Jimmy Buffett
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