The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful

Album: Coconut Telegraph (1981)
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  • By: jimmy buffett
    1980
    This song is for billy clyde tuggel. I hope you make it to tahiti one day.
    -- spoken:
    "play ball!! (one, two, three, four)"
    "where's my per diem? (ladies and gentlemen, the carl reiner band)"
    "hey bobby, where's the keys to the rent-a-car? "
    "jimmy, jimmy, can I open the show in atlanta please? "
    "warning! don't ever start a band!"

    He worked hard all year, just wanted a few weeks alone
    But his old lady's into modelin', she can't get away from a phone
    Besides she bitches about the mosquitoes
    She says, "down there there is nothing to do"
    Her goddamn phone never stops ringin'
    He'll try the service in a day maybe two

    Well he's on his third drink before the wheels of the plane leave the ground
    Makin' points with the stewardess high over long island sound
    She's also spending some time on the island
    Too much city madness gives her the blues
    They make a date to go dancin' and dinin'
    It seems neither has that much to lose

    Chorus:
    The weather is here I wish you were beautiful
    My thoughts aren't too clear but don't run away
    My girlfriend's a bore, my job is too dutiful
    Hell nobody's perfect would you like to play?
    I feel together today

    Well now that's just the start of a well-deserved overdue binge
    Meanwhile back in the city certain people are starting to cringe
    His lawyers are calling his parents
    His girlfriend doesn't know what to think
    His partners are studying their options
    He's just singin' and orderin' drinks

    Chorus:
    The weather is here I wish you were beautiful
    The skies are too clear life's so easy today
    The beer is too cold, the daiquiri's too fruitiful
    No place like home when you're this far away
    I don't care what they say (I don't care)

    He's goin' back to new york pack it up and let everyone know
    It was something that he should have done such a long time ago
    Still time to start a new life in the palm trees
    Ah, billy clyde wasn't insane
    And if it doesn't work out there'll never be any doubt
    That the pleasure was worth all the pain

    Chorus:
    The weather is here I wish you were beautiful
    The skies are too clear life's so easy today
    The beer is too cold, the daiquiri's too fruitiful
    No place like home when you're this far away
    Time for to play
    I need time for to play
    Time for to play
    I need time for to play
    I need time for to play
    I need time for to play
    I need time for to play
    I need time for to play
    I need time for to play

    - notes:
    Billy clyde tuggel was a character in the soap opera "all my children".
    (see album dedication)
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Rodney Page from Saint Petersburg, FlThe start of the song is "Lip Balm!'' Not "Play Ball.''
  • Thomas from Somerville, AlBuffett Rules and so does this song. Nuff said.
  • Mark from Outside Kc, Ks"This song is for Billy Clyde Tuggel. I hope you make it to Tahiti one day." -- Jimmy Buffett, 1980

    Billy Clyde was a character from the ABC soap opera "All My Children." His lifelong dream was to make enough money to escape to the islands of the Carribbean. But, what Buffett fan doesn't share this dream?
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