JIMMY BUFFETT lyrics - Lone Palm

My garden is filled with papayas and mangos

My life is a mixture of reggaes and tangos

Taste for the good life, I can live it no other way



While out on the beach there are two empty chairs

That say more than the people who ever sit there

From under my lone palm I can look out on the day



Where no bird flies by my window

No ship is tied to my tree

Love is a wave building to a crescendo

Ride if you will, ride it with me



I knew this girl made of memories and phrases

Who lived her whole life in both chapters and stages

Danced til the dawn, wished all her worries away



Well she wasn't crazy no she wasn't mad

She just wanted the father that she never had

From under my lone palm I think about her today



Where no bird flies by my window

No ship is tied to my tree

Love is a wave building to a crescendo

Ride if you will, ride it with me



We sailed from the port of indecision

Young and wild with oh so much to learn

Days turn into years as we tried to fool our fears

But to the port of indecision I returned



My gardens are filled with papayas and mangos

My life is a mixture of jingles and jangles

Come Christmas winds and blow all my worries away



Where no bird flies by my window

No ship is tied to my tree

Love is a wave building to a crescendo

Ride if you will, ride it with me



Sing if you will and we'll sing to the sea