Take It Back Lyrics

The song Take It Back is performed by Jimmy Buffett in the album named Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads in the year 1992 .



By: jimmy buffett, matt betton
Open season on the open seas and
Captain says no prisoners please
Skull and crossbones on a background of black
We ain't stealin' we're just takin' back

Chorus:
We ain't stealin' we're just takin' back
Very simple plan of attack
It's our job and a labor of love
Take it home to the up above
We ain't stealin' we're just takin' back
Very simple statement of fact
Call it pillage or call it plunder
We're takin' it back from them boys down under

Hit us hard, took our treasure
That was the worst thing they could do
It will be our great pleasure
To take it back from that captain kangaroo

Yo ho ho, and a bottle of suds
It's a pirates fight we choose
No we don't want a bucket of blood
Just a cup is all we could use
Just a cup

The sails are up and the bets are down
Let's lighten up this harbor town
By hook or crook or new design
We're streakin' for that finish line

Chorus:
We ain't stealin' we're just takin' back
Very simple plan of attack
It's our job and a labor of love
Take it home to the up above
We ain't stealin' we're just takin' back
Very simple statement of fact
Call it pillage or call it plunder
We're takin' it back from them boys down under

-- spoken:
"we ask ourselves when we get in a fix
What would popeye do in a tight spot like this
He'd race for his true love and easily win it
In an old spinach can with a mast stuck in it"

Lift us up, take us high
Time to let our spirits fly
Lift us up, take us high
Let us sail until we die

Lift us up, take us high
Let us float above the foam
Let our sails fill the sky
We are takin' our sweet treasure home

Take it back
We're takin' it baaaaaaaack
Take it back!



Jimmy Buffett - Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads

May 1992

  1. Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
  2. Havana Daydreamin'
  3. Mañana
  4. Treat Her Like A Lady
  5. Steamer
  6. Jolly Mon Sing
  7. Nautical Wheelers
  8. Take It Back
  9. On A Slow Boat To China
  10. Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
  11. Love And Luck
  12. The Captain And The Kid
  13. Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season
  14. Boat Drinks
  15. One Particular Harbour
  16. A Pirate Looks At Forty
  17. Lovely Cruise
  18. Margaritaville
  19. Grapefruit - Juicy Fruit
  20. Ragtop Day
  21. Frank And Lola
  22. Tin Cup Chalice
  23. Knees Of My Heart
  24. Money Back Guarantee
  25. When The Coast Is Clear
  26. Biloxi
  27. Distantly In Love
  28. Coconut Telegraph
  29. Stars On The Water
  30. Who's The Blonde Stranger?
  31. I Have Found Me A Home
  32. Christmas In The Caribbean
  33. Volcano
  34. Brown Eyed Girl
  35. Cheeseburger In Paradise
  36. Fins
  37. The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful
  38. Tampico Trauma
  39. Livingston Saturday Night
  40. Cuban Crime Of Passion
  41. First Look
  42. The Wino And I Know
  43. The Great Filling Station Holdup
  44. Why Don't We Get Drunk
  45. Elvis Imitators
  46. Pencil Thin Mustache
  47. Kick It In Second Wind
  48. Desperation Samba (Halloween In Tijuana)
  49. When Salome Plays The Drum
  50. They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More
  51. The Pascagoula Run
  52. Sending The Old Man Home
  53. Domino College
  54. Come Monday
  55. Defying Gravity
  56. Survive
  57. Incommunicado
  58. I Heard I Was In Town
  59. Ballad Of Spider John
  60. Little Miss Magic
  61. If The Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me
  62. African Friend
  63. California Promises
  64. Everlasting Moon
  65. Pre-You
  66. Middle Of The Night
  67. Coast Of Marseilles
  68. Island
  69. He Went To Paris
  70. Stars Fell On Alabama
  71. Changing Channels
  72. Twelve Volt Man

Take It Back