Jimmy Buffett – Oysters And Pearls (Guitar)

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 Lindbergh left Long Island in 1927

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 Thumbed his nose at gravity

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And climbed into the heavens

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 When he returned to earth that night everything changed

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For the pilot and the planet, everything was rearranged

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  We’re a pretty mixed up bunch

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Of crazy human beings

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 It’s written on our rocket  ships

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And in early cave wall scenes

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  How does it happen?

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   How do we  know?

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   Who sits and watches?

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   Who does the show?

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  Some people love to lead

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   And some refuse to dance

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  Some play it safely, other’s take a chance

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   Still it’s all a mystery

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This place we call the world

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    Where most live as oysters

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While some become pearls

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 Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi

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Who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops and hippies.

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   It’s something more than DNA that tells us who we are

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It’s method and it’s magic, we are of the stars

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  Some never fade away,

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  some crash and burn

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  Some make the world go round, other watch it turn

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  Still it’s all a mystery

     Csus              C
This place we call the world

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   Most are fine as oysters

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While some become pearls

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Lindbergh left Long Island in 19-2-7