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Jimmy Buffett - The City Lyrics

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  • Ahhhhhh
  • Ah, ahhhhhh
  • Ah, ahhhhhh
  • As a child on the farm
  • I was warned of the wiles of the city
  • Of that demon disguise
  • Theres the dirt in the skies of the city
  • Well they say the proximity warps their minds
  • til theyre shooting one another just pass the time
  • And we live it appears
  • Both in spite and in fear of the city
  • Oooohhh, ooohhhh yeah
  • Oooohhh
  • I was constantly told
  • How our lives were controlled by the city
  • How they keep us in debt
  • With the trends that they set its a pity
  • Now the beautiful people in the magazines
  • Got the normal ones living beyond their means
  • And the things that they said
  • Made me go in my head to the city
  • Oooohhh
  • Ahhhhhhh
  • Ah, ahhhhhh
  • Ah, ahhhhhh
  • When I finally came
  • Theres some things still the same in the city
  • You still lie under the thumb
  • Of the rich and the young and the pretty
  • Well they werent much different than we might act
  • If there was that many others that closely packed
  • Its an ancient idea
  • But it struck me so clear in the city
  • Oooohhh, ooohhhh yeah
  • Oooohhh, ooohhhh yeah
  • Oooohhh
  • Ahhhhhh
  • Ah, ahhhhhh
  • Ah, ahhhhhh
  • Id like to do a song that was written about a good friend of mine down in key west, florida, where I spend a little bit of time. this particular friend of mine ran a bar in key west for a
  • Time before we got fed up with all the other alternatives to politicians and elected our favorite bartender mayor. our mayors name is captain tony tarascino, has a little place called captain
  • S saloon where we wrote a little song called last mango in paris, not to be confused with that movie by a similar title.

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