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Far Side of the World
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Jimmy Buffett
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Ramadan is over,
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The new moon's shown her face,
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I'm halfway round the planet,
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In a most unlikely place.
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Following my song line
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Past bamboo shacks and shops
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Behind a jitney packed like sardines,
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With bananas piled on top.
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I ran away from politics,
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It's too bizarre at home.
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Away I flew, tuned into Blue
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"Maybe Amsterdam or Rome"
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Awakened by a stewardess,
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With Spain somewhere below.
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On the threshold of adventure,
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God I do love this job so.
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So while I make my move
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On the big board game
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Up and down a Spanish highway,
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Some things remain the same.
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Girls meet boys
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and the boys tease girls
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I'm heading out this morning,
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For the Far Side of the World.
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Oh I believe in song lines
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Obvious and not
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I'd ridden them like camels
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To some most peculiar spots.
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They run across the oceans
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Through mountains and saloons
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And tonight out to the dessert
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Where I sit atop this dune.
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I was destined for this vantage point
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Which is so far from the Sea
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I've lived it in the pages of Saint-Exupery
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From Paris to Tunisia
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Casablanca to Dakar
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I was riding long before I flew
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Through the wind and sand and stars.
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Caravan
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Ride that hump
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And Timbuktu's a jillion bumps
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Sleeping bags and battle flags
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Are coiled and furled
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That's the way you travel
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To the far side of the world!
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A Sunset framed by lightening bolts
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Burns a lasting memory
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And a string of tiny twinkling lights
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adorn the sausage tree.
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While the embers from the log fire
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Flicker, fly, and twirl
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Then drift off toward the cosmos
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From the Far Side of the World.
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Well it's Christmas and my birthday
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and so to that extent
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The Masai not the wise men
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Are circling my tent.
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I teach them how to play guitar
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They show me how to dance
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We have rum from the Caribbean
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And Burgundy from France.
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New Year's Eve in Zanzibar
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With Babu and his boys
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High up on the rooftop
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You can relish all the noise.
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They are dancing on the tables
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People bouncing like gazelles
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Two 0-0-1 is ushered in
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With air raid horns and bells.
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Time to sing time to dance
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Living out my second chance.
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Cobras and sleeping bags are coiled and curled
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That's the way it happens
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On the Far Side of the World.
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Back at home, it's afternoon
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Six thousand miles away.
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I will still be there when I get through
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Attending this soiree
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There are jobs and chores and questions
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And plates I need to twirl,
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But tonight I'll take my chances,
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On the Far Side of the World.
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That's the way it happens
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On the Far Side of the World.
One Particular Harbor Jimmy Buffett
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