Goin' South

Song ratings

Rating	Comments	Author	Date
	This song wants to make you comb through Jimmy Buffett's early albums to determine if this is a cover song (it's mood is remarkably like "Wonder Why You Ever Go Home" or "Banana Republics" from his Changes in Latitudes album). Carl again on lead vocals, sounding lonely and desolate and yearning to get away.	Bruce Beatlefan	October 26, 2009

Lyrics

I think of goin' south for the winter
It's getting mighty cold
I watch the fire glow
The moon shining 'cross the snow
Maybe Florida or Mexico
Is where I oughta go

Somewhere where everything is green
Oo the change of scene
Might do a me good
When the swallows go
When they leave Capistrano
Fly away so gracefully
Maybe that's for me

Snowdrifts blowing up against my door
Going clear up to the roof
I could be lying on some sun-washed shore
Truth is, don't know what I'm waiting for

Think I'm goin' south for the winter
It's getting mighty cold
I watch the fire glow
The moon shinin' 'cross the snow
Maybe Florida or Mexico
Is where I oughta go

South of the border
Think I'm goin' south
Get my life in order
Think I'm goin' south
For the winter
It's gettin' mighty cold

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