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Jimmy Buffett |
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Miscellaneous |
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Cowboy In The Jungle |
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Cowboy In The Jungle |
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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 |
