Grapefruit/Juicy Fruit Lyrics

The song Grapefruit/Juicy Fruit is performed by Jimmy Buffett in the album named Meet Me In Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection in the year 2003 .



He went to Paris lookin' for answers
To questions that bothered him so
He was impressive, young and aggressive
Savin' the world on his own

But the warm summer breezes
The French wines and cheeses
Put his ambition at bay
The summers and winters
Scattered like splinters
And four or five years slipped away

Then he went to England, played the piano
And married an actress named Kim
They had a fine life, she was a good wife
And bore him a young son named Jim

And all of the answers and all of the questions
Locked in his attic one day
'Cause he liked the quiet clean country livin'
And twenty more years slipped away

Well the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady
And left him with only one eye
His body was battered, his whole world was shattered
And all he could do was just cry

While the tears were a-fallin' he was recallin'
Answers he never found
So he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean
And left England without a sound

Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin's
And drinks his Green Label each day
Writing his memoirs, losin' his hearin'
But he don't care what most people say

Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion
If he likes you he'll smile and he'll say
"Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
But I had a good life all the way"

Coda:
And he went to Paris lookin' for answers
To questions that bothered him so



Jimmy Buffett - Meet Me In Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection

Apr 2003

  1. Margaritaville
  2. Migration
  3. Growing Older But Not Up
  4. Holiday [Live]
  5. Come Monday
  6. Fruitcakes
  7. We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About
  8. Cheeseburger in Paradise
  9. Jolly Mon Sing
  10. The Pascagoula Run [Live]
  11. Tin Cup Chalice
  12. Pencil Thin Moustache
  13. Grapefruit/Juicy Fruit
  14. Coconut Telegraph
  15. Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
  16. Last Mango in Paris
  17. Fins
  18. Why Don't We Get Drunk
  19. Brown Eyed Girl
  20. One Particular Harbour
  21. School Boy Heart
  22. Everybody's Talkin'
  23. Volcano
  24. Son of a Son of a Sailor
  25. Take Another Road
  26. Knees of My Heart
  27. In the Shelter
  28. Havana Daydreamin'
  29. Desperation Samba (Halloween in Tijuana) [Live]
  30. Barefoot Children
  31. Saxophones
  32. Cowboy in the Jungle
  33. He Went to Paris
  34. Creola
  35. Bob Robert's Society Band
  36. A Pirate Looks at Forty [Live]
  37. Sail on Sailor [#]
  38. The Captain and the Kid

Grapefruit/Juicy Fruit