| Lyrics: | w/Jimmy Buffett; m/Buffett and Amy Lee
Piano intro: (D-B7-Em/A, D-B7-Em-A;
D7-D7-A-Am-G)
1 V: Well, you've heard about the alligators sleepin' in the
shade
You've heard about the sugar barons screwin' up the 'glade.
It's a melting pot
existence and it's hard to contemplate,
But I'm never in the battle in the Sunshine
State.
2 V: But far, far away from the front page news.
Far, far away from the
headline blues,
down a secondary road that severely shows its age
The forties comes to
life on a makeshift stage.
1 C: It's the Bob Roberts Society Band,
playin' every
Sunday at the orange grove stand.
They don't play grunge and they don't play loud,
it's
the magic of the music that still draws a crowd.
3 V: Well, the word goes out from
Melbourne to the Keys;
The faithful get the message like it's written on the breeze.
Young
folks, old folks vow to cut a rug;
fox trot, bunny hop, do the jitterbug.
2 C: It's
the Bob Roberts Society Band,
playin' every Sunday at the orange grove stand.
They don't
play grunge and they don't play loud,
it's the magic of the music that still draws a
crowd.
4 V: I saw many vans from Boca, buses from Perrine.
There were people
speakin' Hindu in the barbecue line.
A couple on their honeymoon looked a bit
confused,
but the boys in the band put 'em right in the mood, they played ...
5 V: A
lady dressed in purple started dancin' all alone,
then she sauntered oh so gently to the vacant
microphone.
She sounded like she's someone who never missed a beat,
by the time the number
ended they were dancin' in the street.
6 V: They died and gone to heaven, that lively
little crowd.
Trombones and saxophones sent 'em to the clouds.
They coulda gone all night
but the party had to stop
when they blew the circuit breaker in the souvenir shop.
3
C: It's the Bob Roberts Society Band,
playin' every Sunday at the orange grove stand.
They
don't play grunge and they don't play loud,
it's the magic of the music that still draws a
crowd.
4 C: It's the Bob Roberts Society Band,
playin' every Sunday at the orange
grove stand.
They don't play grunge and they don't play loud,
it's the magic of the music
that still draws a crowd.
(Submitted by T.R. Violante from CD liner |
