Lyrics Today's Message - Jimmy Buffett

Today's Message

«Yes, we white people been working on rhythm for a while but we’ve got a long
way to go.
So when we get to this next song we’d like for you to sing.
I know that some of you may be a little hesitant here.
The climate that’s
going around these days because some pea-brained people think that some of my
songs are obscene and nasty.
We know better don’t we?
But I just feel sorry for the ones that don’t.
It’s just that the times have
moved so far ahead of 'em they’re back in the pea-brained past.»
«Time has moved so fast, I will give you a couple of examples.
Today,
a pair of tennis shoes costs more than a lot of your first automobiles did.
I had a hundred dollar pick-up truck back in those days.
I know.
Can I get an AMEN for a hundred dollar pick-up truck?»
«Today there are two Madonnas.
Our Lady of Fatima over here, and that woman
from Michigan runnin' around Italy with Warren Beatty over here.
Looks like Helen of Troy.
Sue me baby sue me, yeah.»
«And uh, we don’t want you to think of this song in those terms because this
song that we’re about to get you to help us with is not a nasty, obscene song.
It is a love song, from a slightly different point of view, that’s all.
And before we sing it we just want to bring you a little message of peace,
prosperity, and hope in such a trouble world today.
But Reverened Jim has a
few things he thinks could work to solve our world problems and our world
tensions.»
«First of all, we send all the presidents of the savings and loans associations
over to run the country of Iraq.
That would solve two problems right there.
And world peace, I’ve got an answer for world peace.
We take the money that
it’d cost us to build just one B-1 bomber, that one that doesn’t work.
We change it into five dollar bills.
We put all of this money into bags and we
fly over the Atlantic Ocean, past Europe because they’re getting their shit
togehter anyway.
We drop this money on the Russian people.
All those little
tiny pictures of Abraham Lincoln come tumblin' down out of the sky.
I want them to feel those sawbucks in their hands.
You know how your money
feels when you accidently leave it in your blue jeans and you take it out and
it’s all warm and soft, oooh!
Well we let those Russian people hang on to that
money for about a week and then we fly back over there.
We fill our airplanes
full of mail order catalogs from L.L. Bean.
From up in Columbus,
Sporty’s Pilot Shop.
And Victoria’s Secret!
The
Russian people have this money in their hand, the catalogs come down.
They look at those pictures on the opening pages of the Victoria’s Secret
catalog, not back in the outdoors section, you know what I’m talking about
right?
They got the money, they got the catalogs, they’re going to get the idea.
They send all the money back to us to buy the stuff.
We have full employment.
There’s world peace, and the Russians have crotch-less underwear through the
twenty-first century!
Thank you!»
«So I hope you have no hesitation about joining us in this song.
As I said, it is just a love song, from a different point of view.»