A Pirate Looks At Forty Lyrics With Guitar Chords (Jimmy Buffett)

Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call

Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall

You’ve seen it all, you’ve seen it all

Watch the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam

And in your belly you hold the treasure that few have ever seen

Most of them dreams, most of them dreams

Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late

The cannons don’t thunder there’s nothin’ to plunder, I’m an over forty victim of fate

Arriving too late, arriving too late

I’ve done a bit of smugglin’ and I’ve run my share of grass

I made enough money to buy Miami but I pissed it away so fast

Never meant to last, never meant to last

I have been drunk now for over two weeks

I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks

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Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call

Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall

You’ve seen it all, you’ve seen it all

Watch the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam

And in your belly you hold the treasure that few have ever seen

Most of them dreams, most of them dreams

Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late

The cannons don’t thunder there’s nothin’ to plunder, I’m an over forty victim of fate

Arriving too late, arriving too late

I’ve done a bit of smugglin’ and I’ve run my share of grass

I made enough money to buy Miami but I pissed it away so fast

Never meant to last, never meant to last

I have been drunk now for over two weeks

I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks

But I’ve got to stop wishin’, got to go fishin’ I’m down to rock bottom again

With just a few friends, just a few friends

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I go for younger women, lived with several awhile

And though I ran away, they’ll come back one day, I still could manage a smile

It just takes awhile, just takes awhile

Mother, mother ocean, after all these years I’ve found

My occupational hazard being, my occupation’s just not around

I feel like I’ve drowned, gonna head uptown

I feel like I’ve drowned