Pencil Thin Mustache

Album: Living & Dying In 3/4 Time (1974)
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  • Now they make new movies in old black and white
    With happy endings, where nobody fights
    So if you find yourself in that nostalgic rage
    Honey, jump right up and show your age

    I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache
    The "Boston Blackie" kind
    A two-toned Ricky Ricardo jacket
    And an autographed picture of Andy Devine

    I remember bein' buck-toothed and skinny
    Writin' fan letters to Sky's niece Penny
    Oh, I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache
    Then I could solve some mysteries too

    Then it's Bandstand, Disneyland, growin' up fast
    Drinkin' on a fake I.D.
    Yeah, and Rama of the jungle was everyone's Bawana
    But only jazz musicians were smokin' marijuana
    Yeah, I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache
    Then I could solve some mysteries too

    Thin, thin, pencil-thin mustache

    Then it's flat top, dirty bob, coppin' a feel
    Grubbin' on the livin' room floor, so sore
    Yeah, they send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge
    But all you want to do is learn how to score

    Yeah, but now I'm gettin' old, don't wear underwear
    I don't go to church and I don't cut my hair
    But I can go to movies and see it all there
    Just the way that it used to be

    That's why I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache
    The "Boston Blackie" kind
    A two-toned Ricky Ricardo jacket
    And an autographed picture of Andy Devine

    Oh, I could be anyone I wanted to be
    Maybe suave Errol Flynn or the Sheik of Araby
    If I only had a pencil-thin mustache
    Then I could do some cruisin' too

    Yeah, Bryl-cream, a little dab'll do ya
    Oh, I could do some cruisin' too Writer/s: Jimmy Buffett
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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