A Lot To Drink About

A Lot to Drink About
by Jimmy Buffett, Mac McAnally, Will Kimbrough

As performed live on February 12, 2009 in Key West, FL

Up on the east side of Manhattan
There still Dancin’ with the stars
While over in sub-prime city
It’s gettin’ angry in the local bars
Watchin’ 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 auto makers
Swimming upstream like a trout
They let the shit hit the fan
Then they got a plan
Hey, we got a lot to drink about

Chorus
There’s the price of oil
The war of the spoils
Where’s your bucket for the big bail out?
Iraq Iran Afghanistan
We’ve got a lot to drink about

Now, Maydolf made off with all the money
Now his clients are down to skunk weed
Repeat after me, it’s so easy to see
Where only talking simple greed
And those Somalian pirates made off with all the gold
While Bush and Cheney ain’t around
And all the good lookers seem to be Czech hookers
From Key West to London town

It’s the price of oil
The war of the spoils
Where’s your bucket for the big bail out?
Iraq Iran Afghanistan
We’ve got a lot to drink about

So pour me some Tennessee Whiskey
Pour me some fine Jamaican Rum
That loudmouth soup gets me kinda looped
Tequilla? of course I’ll have me some!
Now the family devalues
And little children count their net worth
And the truth wherever it’s hidin’
Can’t be found on Google earth
Citibank’s buying jets with our money
I wanna flog them with a buggy whip
I hope Obama and Joe want let the volcano blow
And patch the hole in our sinking ship

It’s the price of oil
The war of the spoils
Here’s your bucket for the big bail out
Iraq Iran Afghanistan
We’ve got a lot to drink about

Recession Depression Aggression Good God
CNN keeps bummin’ me out
I can’t take another doomsday moment
We got a lot to drink, a lot to think
A lot to drink about