Earl's Dead Cadillac For Sale Lyrics - Songs From St. Somewhere - Jimmy Buffett

Earl's dead - Cadillac for sale 

An Eldorado sits out on the Tamiami Trail 

Sign on the windshield tells the whole tale 

Earl's dead - Cadillac for sale 

He was a circus man when they first met 

He was fired from a cannon into a net 

The money was good he always hit the bullseye 

Savin' for the car one day he would buy 

No, he wasn't thinkin' of some average ride 

A human cannonball has a lot of pride 

If you're gonna live large you need a hydramatic 

Eldorado Biarritz for this wild acrobatic 

And Earl's is red with shark-like fins 

And that is where this little love tale begins 

The rear view mirror puts it all in scale 

Earl's dead - Cadillac for sale 

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She was an Everglades girl, partly Seminole 

With an urge for goin', and a wanderin' soul 

With a name like Moonvine she knew she'd never stay 

That handsome human bullet stole her heart away 

It was a Saturday night after the midnight show 

She was starin' at the car when he said "hello" 

Didn't take too much to move her off the reservation 

Just a good lookin' boy with the right transportation 

And now Earl is wed, Moonvine's got her veil 

They're towin' that cannon down the Tamiami Trail 

He's got the talent, she's got brains 

Earl and Moonvine, left the land of sugar cane 

So they drove down to Panama and back up to Maine 

Had so much fun, hell, they did it again 

Crossing cities off the map as they shot down the road 

Knowin' towin' a cannon, things could explode 

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Now a Cadillac was always an Elvis thing 

Polished chrome and gold it was the birth of bling 

They came with personality they made you a star 

God may have made the earth 

But man made that car 

Now all the way back to the time of James Dean 

Car crash songs chewed up heroes and machines 

Sick minds, stop signs and uncontrolled swerves 

But Early and his Caddy could handle killer curves 

So when the big top folded, Early took his last drive 

Moonvine kissed her boy goodbye, his exit had arrived 

She shot his ashes 'cross the Gulf from that ancient rusty gun 

Nomads know when the show is done 

And Earl's dead, he's been airmailed 

And that Eldorado's waitin' on the Tamiami Trail 

For some shameless entertainer to blow in like a gale 

Earl's dead - Cadillac for sale 

Earl's dead, Earl's dead