Jimmy Buffett - Everybody's Got a Cousin in Miami lyrics

Hey Jimmy, you know anybody in Miami that can
Get me a passport real quick? Oh yeah
Yeah man i've got a cousin up there
He knows everything about everything let's
See if I've got his number here somewhere
Yeah no, he works out of a payphone
Oh yeah, I've got it here okay today's
International investor, whatever that
Is yeah
Everybody's got a cousin in Miami here we go

It was was ninety miles to freedom
But they took the risk
Though ocean was all motion and
The wind was brisk
The deadly gunboats never saw them
In the pale moonlight
They were off to Cayo Hueso
By the dawn's early light

The gringo in the garden


Called the custom's man
They answered all his questions
Were allowed to land
The ladies shared a hairbrush and
Their husbands had a Coke
And they were taken up to Krome
To meet with their kinfolk

Everybody's got a cousin in Miami
Everybody understands the impromptu
Dancing in the heat to the beat
That turns your clothing clammy
Everybody needs to have a dream come true

In a third world jungle, not so far away
Lives a natural drummer with a dream to play
He's the brother of the lizard
And the flying fish
But he's enchanted by the pictures
From the satellite dish

So his mama packs his bag
Knots his red necktie
Sends him north to her relations
With a kiss goodbye
He's bewildered by the plane ride
And the immigration line
Until he sees his Christian name
Upon a cardboard sign

Everybody's got a cousin in Miami
Everybody is an aborigine
Dancing in the heat to the beat
It turns your clothing clammy
Everybody want to win that lottery

And the winning numbers are 7, 6, 5, 3, 7, 9
Uh, close, so close
History lesson, history lesson

It's hard to believe this city
Started as a trading post
Home to the Seminole, pirate, and pioneer
Between the river of grass and
The old Mosquito Coast
Before the railroad claimed
The southernmost frontier

I am umbilically connected to
The temperate zone it brought me life
It brought me love I never have outgrown
Brought me one too many nights
Along that Biscayne shore
And one too many mornings
In the Grove drugstore

In one way or the other, we're all refugees
Livin' out this easy life
Below the banyan trees
Smoothing off the rougher edges
Of the culture clash
We've got a style, we've got a look
We've got that old panache

Everybody's got a cousin in Miami
Everybody understands the impromptu
Dancing in the heat to the beat
It turns your clothing clammy
Everybody needs to have a dream come true

I do, I do let's take it down boys
Down south to those little latitudes
Ya ya, ya ya thank you, Robert

Everybody's got a cousin in Miami
Everybody is an aborigine
Dancing in the heat to the beat
It turns your clothing clammy
Under the stars, in the bars down by the sea

Oh me now everybody's got a cousin in Miami
Everybody has to have that impromptu
What are we doing now?
Dancing in the heat to the beat
It turns your clothing clammy
Everybody needs to have a dream come true
I do i do i had this dream the
Other day i was down on the
Equator i didn't know whether I was
Up or down i couldn't
Tell the difference it was hot and
We were rockin' and the
Coral Reefers gathered around me and they
Said: We want a raise
Or we're going to quit and that's
When I woke up so play boys, play