A Pirate Looks At 40 Lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Mother, mother ocean 

I've heard you call 

Wanted to sail upon your waters 

Since I was three feet tall 

You've seen it all 

You see it all 

I've watched the men who rode you 

Switched from sails to steam 

And in your belly you hold the treasures 

You have ever seen 

Most of them dream 

Most of them dream 

Yes I am a pirate 

Two hundred years too late 

The cannons don't thunder 

There's nothing to plunder 

I'm an over forty victim of fate 

Arriving too late 

Arriving too late 

I've done a bit of smuggling 

And I've run my share of grass 

I've made enough money to buy Miami 

But I pissed it away so fast 

Never meant to last 

Never meant to last 

Well I have been drunk now for over two weeks 

I pased out and I've rallied and I sprung a few leaks 

But I've got to stop wishin' got to go fishin' 

I'm down to rock bottom again 

With just a few friends 

Just a few friends 

I go for younger women(Trouuubllee) 

Lived with several wives 

But I've ran them away 

Hell, they come back some day 

And still can manage to smile 

Just takes a while 

It just takes a while 

Mother mother ocean 

After all these years I've found 

This occupational hazard be 

My occupation just not around 

Feels like I've drown 

Gonna get drunk up town 

Feels like I've drown 

When I get drunk up town 

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