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
- Margaritaville
- Migration
- Growing Older But Not Up
- Holiday [Live]
- Come Monday
- Fruitcakes
- We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About
- Cheeseburger in Paradise
- Jolly Mon Sing
- The Pascagoula Run [Live]
- Tin Cup Chalice
- Pencil Thin Moustache
- Grapefruit/Juicy Fruit
- Coconut Telegraph
- Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
- Last Mango in Paris
- Fins
- Why Don't We Get Drunk
- Brown Eyed Girl
- One Particular Harbour
- School Boy Heart
- Everybody's Talkin'
- Volcano
- Son of a Son of a Sailor
- Take Another Road
- Knees of My Heart
- In the Shelter
- Havana Daydreamin'
- Desperation Samba (Halloween in Tijuana) [Live]
- Barefoot Children
- Saxophones
- Cowboy in the Jungle
- He Went to Paris
- Creola
- Bob Robert's Society Band
- A Pirate Looks at Forty [Live]
- Sail on Sailor [#]
- The Captain and the Kid