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Everybody's Got a Cousin in Miami
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Jimmy Buffett
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Everybody's Got a Cousin in Miami
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By: Jimmy Buffett, Michael Tschudin
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1993
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--Spoken:
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"Hey Jimmy, you know anybody in Miami that can get me a passport
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real quick?"
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"Oh yeah, yeah man. I've got a cousin up there. He knows
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everthing about everything. Let's see if I've got his number
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here somewhere, yeah. No, he works out of a payphone...oh yeah.
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I've got it here. Okay. Today's international investor,
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whatever that is. Yeah, everybody's got a cousin in Miami. Here
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we go."
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It was was ninety miles to freedom
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But they took the risk
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Though ocean was all motion
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And the wind was brisk
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The deadly gunboats never saw them
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In the pale moonlight
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They were off to Cayo Hueso
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By the dawn's early light
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The gringo in the garden called the custom's man
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They answered all his questions
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Were allowed to land
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The ladies shared a hairbrush
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And their husbands had a Coke
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And they were taken up to Krome
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To meet with there kin folk
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Chorus:
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Everybody's got a cousin in Miami
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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 (ooooohhhhh)
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Everybody needs to have a dream come true
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In a third world jungle
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Not so far away
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Lives a natural drummer
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With a dream to play
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He's the brother of the lizard
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And the flying fish
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But he's enchanted by the pictures
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>From the satellite dish
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So his mama packs his bag
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Knots his red neck tie
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Send him north to her relations
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With a kiss goodbye
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He's bewildered by the plane ride
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And the immigration line
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Until he sees his Christian name
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Upon a cardboard sign
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Chorus:
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Everybody's got a cousin in Miami
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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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It turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)
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Everybody want to win that lottery
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--Spoken:
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"And the winning numbers are...7, 6, 5, 3, 7, 9. Uh, close, so
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close. History lesson, history lesson."
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It's hard to believe this 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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Brought me one too many nights along that Biscayne shore
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And one too many mornings in the Grove drugstore
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And one way or the other we're all refugees
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Livin' 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've got a style we've got a look
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We've got that old panache
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Chorus:
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Everybody's got a cousin in Miami
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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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It turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)
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Everybody needs to have a dream come true
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--Spoken:
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"I do, I do. Let's take it down boys. Down south to those
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little latitudes. Ya ya, ya ya. Thank you Robert.
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Chorus:
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Everybody's got a cousin in Miami
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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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It turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)
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Under the stars in the bars down by the sea
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Oh me now
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Everybody's got a cousin in Miami
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(Everybody's got a cousin in Miami)
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Everybody has to have that impromptu
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--Spoken:
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"What are we doing now?"
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Dancing in the heat to the beat
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It turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)
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Everybody needs to have a dream come true
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--Spoken:
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"I do. I do. I had this dream the other day. I was down on the
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equator. I didn't know whether I was up or down. I couldn't
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tell the difference. It was hot and we were rockin'. And the
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Coral Reefers gathered around me and they said: We want a raise
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or we're going to quit. And that's when I woke up. So play
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boys, play."
Come Monday - Jimmy Buffett
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