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Cowboy in The Jungle
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Jimmy Buffett
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Cowboy in the jungle
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By: jimmy buffett
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1978
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There's a cowboy in the jungle
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And he looks so out of place
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With his shrimpskin boots and his cheap cheroots
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And his skin as white as paste
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Headin' south to paraguay
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Where the gauchos sing and shout
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Now he's stuck in porto bello
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Since his money all ran out
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So he hangs out with the sailors
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Night and day they're raisin' hell
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And his original destination's just another
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Story that he loves to tell
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With no plans for the future
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He still seems in control
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From a bronco ride to a ten foot tide
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He just had to learn to roll
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Chorus:
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Roll with the punches
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Play all of his hunches
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Make the best of whatever came his way
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What he lacked in ambition
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He made up with intuition
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Plowing straight ahead come what may
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Steel band in the distance
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And their music floats across the bay
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While american women in moomoos
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Talk about all the things they did today
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And their husbands quack about fishing
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As they slug those rum drinks down
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Discussing who caught what and who sat on his butt
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But it's the only show in town.
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Chorus:
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They're tryin' to drink all the punches
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They all may lose their lunches
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Tryin' to cram lost years into five or six days
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Seems that blind ambition erased their intuition
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Plowin' straight ahead come what may.
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I don't want to live on that kind of island
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No I don't want to swim in a roped off sea
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Too much for me, too much for me
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I've got to be where the wind and the water are free.
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Alone on a midnight passage
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I can count the falling stars
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While the southern cross and the satellites
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They remind me of where we are
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Spinning around in circles
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Living it day to day
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And still twenty four hours may be sixty good years
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It's still not that long a stay.
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Chorus:
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We've gotta roll with the punches
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Learn to play all of our hunches
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Makin' the best of whatever comes your way
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Forget that blind ambition
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And learn to trust your intuition
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Plowin' straight ahead come what may
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And there's a cowboy in the jungle
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