| This song is for billy clyde tuggel. |
| i hope you make it to tahiti one day.
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| -- spoken:
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| «play ball! |
| (one, two, three, four)»
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| «where's my per diem? |
| (ladies and gentlemen, the carl reiner band)»
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| «hey bobby, where’s the keys to the rent-a-car?»
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| «jimmy, jimmy, can i open the show in atlanta please?»
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| «warning! |
| don’t ever start a band!»
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| He worked hard all year, just wanted a few weeks alone
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| But his old lady’s into modelin', she can’t get away from a phone
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| Besides she bitches about the mosquitoes
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| She says, «down there there is nothing to do»
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| Her goddamn phone never stops ringin'
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| He’ll try the service in a day maybe two
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| Well he’s on his third drink before the wheels of the plane leave the ground
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| Makin’points with the stewardess high over long island sound
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| She’s also spending some time on the island
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| Too much city madness gives her the blues
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| They make a date to go dancin’and dinin'
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| It seems neither has that much to lose
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| The weather is here i wish you were beautiful
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| My thoughts aren’t too clear but don’t run away
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| My girlfriend’s a bore, my job is too dutiful
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| Hell nobody’s perfect would you like to play?
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| I feel together today
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| Well now that’s just the start of a well-deserved overdue binge
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| Meanwhile back in the city certain people are starting to cringe
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| His lawyers are calling his parents
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| His girlfriend doesn’t know what to think
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| His partners are studying their options
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| He’s just singin’and orderin’drinks
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| The weather is here i wish you were beautiful
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| The skies are too clear life’s so easy today
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| The beer is too cold, the daiquiri’s too fruitiful
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| No place like home when you’re this far away
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| I don’t care what they say (i don’t care)
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| He’s goin’back to new york pack it up and let everyone know
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| It was something that he should have done such a long time ago
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| Still time to start a new life in the palm trees
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| Ah, billy clyde wasn’t insane
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| And if it doesn’t work out there’ll never be any doubt
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| That the pleasure was worth all the pain
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| The weather is here i wish you were beautiful
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| The skies are too clear life’s so easy today
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| The beer is too cold, the daiquiri’s too fruitiful
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| No place like home when you’re this far away
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| Time for to play
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| I need time for to play
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| Time for to play
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| I need time for to play
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| I need time for to play
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| I need time for to play
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| I need time for to play
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| I need time for to play
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| I need time for to play
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| — notes:
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| Billy clyde tuggel was a character in the soap opera «all my children».
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| (see album dedication) |