JIMMY BUFFETT lyrics - A Lot To Drink About

(Jimmy Buffett, Mac McAnally, Will Kimbrough)



Hey, have you noticed that the world has changed

That the news is all bad

Well, I think it’s time for a song about that



Up on the east side of Manhattan

They’re still dancing with the stars

While over in sub-prime city

It’s getting ugly in the local bars

Watching the news only gives me the blues

There’s too much going wrong



It takes the likes of me to hit the reboot key

And write a high speed drinking song



Millionaires losing everything

Hey, welcome to the other side of life

There goes the yacht there goes the Rolls

But, you get to keep your wife



And don’t forget the automakers

Swimming upstream like a trout

They let the shit hit the fan

And then made a plan

We’ve got a lot to drink about



There’s the price of oil

The war of the spoils

Here’s your bucket for the big bailout

Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan

We’ve got a lot to drink about



Now Madoff made off with all the money

And his clients are down to skunk weed

Repeat after me it’s so easy to see

We’re only talking simple greed



And those Somalian pirates are counting all their gold

While Bush and Cheney ain’t around

And all the good lookers seem to be Russian hookers

From Key West to London town



With the price of oil

War of the spoils

Here’s your bucket for the big bailout

Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan

We’ve got a lot to drink about



So pour me some Tennessee whiskey

Pour me a fine Jamaican rum

That loud mouth soup

Can get ya kind of looped

Tequila, of course I want some!



Well the family devalues

And little children count their net worth

And the truth wherever it’s hiding

Can’t be found on Google Earth

Citibank’s buying jets with our money

I wanna flog ‘em with a buggy whip

Let’s hope Barack and Joe won’t let the volcano blow

And patch the hole in our sinking ship



There’s the price of oil

The war of the spoils

Here’s your bucket for the big bailout

Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan

We’ve got a lot to drink about



Recession, opression, depression good God

CNN keeps bummin’ me out

I can’t take another doomsday minute

Got a lot to drink

A lot to think

A lot to drink about



God bless America