Jimmy Buffett - False Echoes (Havana 1921) lyrics
[Jimmy Buffett - False Echoes Havana 1921 lyrics]
The skies over Cuba turned
Pink with the light
And the waterfront ritual began to ignite
All the ships in the harbor
Were warmed by the sun
Twenty-fifth of November, 1921
On the old Chickamauga, the signal jacks flew
And the message they spelled out
Caused a great ballyhoo
Every ship in Havana then hoisted away
All the pennants were a-flyin' on
My dad's first birthday
Enduring echoes call out from his past
Time ain't for savin', no
Time's not for that
Chasing false echoes like a lost legionnaire
He waltzes on memories while he
Fades like a flare
Now his storybook childhood was
Not make believe
On the decks of a tall ship
He was taught to achieve
Witnessed storms and starvation
Natural wonders and force
Oh, the life of a sailor
Steers a wanderin' course
Enduring echoes call out from his past
Time ain't for savin', no
Time's not for that
Chasing false echoes like a lost legionnaire
He waltzes on memories while he
Fades like a flare
Well, now life throws us curveballs
We never can reach he gave up the ocean
But he lived by the beach
Where he raised up his family
Taught us all to survive
Then the wind went away in 1995
Now the old Chickamauga has
Slipped by the waves
She lies on the bottom of old Mobile Bay
Where the ghosts of his father
And his brother are near
They protect him and tell him
There's nothin' to fear
'Cause it's family tradition we
Take to the sea and it's a time in the
Future for Cameron and me
Enduring echoes call out from his past
Time ain't for saving, no
Time's not for that
Chasing false echoes like a lost legionnaire
He waltzes on memories while he
Fades like a flare
The skies over Cuba were warmed by the sun
Twenty-fifth of November 1921
Pink with the light
And the waterfront ritual began to ignite
All the ships in the harbor
Were warmed by the sun
Twenty-fifth of November, 1921
On the old Chickamauga, the signal jacks flew
And the message they spelled out
Caused a great ballyhoo
Every ship in Havana then hoisted away
All the pennants were a-flyin' on
My dad's first birthday
Enduring echoes call out from his past
Time ain't for savin', no
Time's not for that
Chasing false echoes like a lost legionnaire
He waltzes on memories while he
Fades like a flare
Now his storybook childhood was
Not make believe
On the decks of a tall ship
He was taught to achieve
Witnessed storms and starvation
Natural wonders and force
Oh, the life of a sailor
Steers a wanderin' course
Enduring echoes call out from his past
Time ain't for savin', no
Time's not for that
Chasing false echoes like a lost legionnaire
He waltzes on memories while he
Fades like a flare
Well, now life throws us curveballs
We never can reach he gave up the ocean
But he lived by the beach
Where he raised up his family
Taught us all to survive
Then the wind went away in 1995
Now the old Chickamauga has
Slipped by the waves
She lies on the bottom of old Mobile Bay
Where the ghosts of his father
And his brother are near
They protect him and tell him
There's nothin' to fear
'Cause it's family tradition we
Take to the sea and it's a time in the
Future for Cameron and me
Enduring echoes call out from his past
Time ain't for saving, no
Time's not for that
Chasing false echoes like a lost legionnaire
He waltzes on memories while he
Fades like a flare
The skies over Cuba were warmed by the sun
Twenty-fifth of November 1921