Fruitcakes Chords by Jimmy Buffett

[Start]

[Verse]
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■ You know I was talking to my friend Desdemona the other day
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She runs this space station and bake shop down near Boomtown
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She told me that human beings are flawed individuals
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The cosmic bakers took us out of the oven a little too early
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And that's the reason we're as crazy as we are and I believe it
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Take for example when you go to the movies these days you know


[Chorus]
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They try to sell you this jumbo drink
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Eight extra ounces of watereddown cherry coke for an extra twentyfive cents
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I don't want it
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I don't want that much organization in my life
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I don't want other people thinking for me
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I want my Junior Mints where did the Junior Mints go in the movies
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I don't want a twelve pound Nestle's crunch for twentyfive dollars
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I want Junior Mints
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We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers
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We need people that care
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I'm mad as hell and I don't want to take it anymore
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Fruitcakes in the kitchen
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Fruitcakes on the street
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Struttin' naked through the crosswalk
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In the middle of the week
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Halfbaked cookies in the oven
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Halfbaked people on the bus
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There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us
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Paradise ■ lost and found


[Verse]
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Paradise take a look around
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I was out in California where I hear they have it all
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They got riots fires mud slides
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They've got sushi in the mall
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Water bars brontasaurs chinese modern lust
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Shake and bake life with the quake
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The secret's in the crust
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Fruitcakes in the kitchen


[Chorus]
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Fruitcakes on the street
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Struttin' naked through the crosswalk
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In the middle of the week
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Halfbaked cookies in the oven
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Halfbaked people on the bus
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There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us
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Speakin' of fruitcakes how 'bout the government
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Your tax dollars at work
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We lost our Martian rocket ship
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The high paid spokesman said
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Looks like that silly rocket ship
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Has lost its coneshaped head
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We spent ninety jillion dollars trying to get a look at Mars
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I hear universal laughter ringing out among the stars
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Fruitcakes in the galaxy
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Fruitcakes on the earth
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Struttin' naked towards eternity
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We've been that way since birth
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Halfbaked cookies in the oven
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Halfbaked people on the bus
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There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us


[Verse]
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Religion ■ religion ■
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Oh there's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning
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Here we go now ■
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■ Alright alter boys
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Mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa
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Mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa


[Chorus]
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Where's the church who took the steeple
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Religion is in the hands of some crazyass people
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Television preachers with bad hair and dimples
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The god's honest truth is it's not that simple
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It's the Buddhist in you it's the Pagan in me
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It's the Muslim in him she's Catholic ain't she
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It's the born again look its the WASP and the Jew
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Tell me what's goin' on I ain't got a clue


[Verse]
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Now here comes the big ones relationships we all got 'em
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We all want 'em what do we do with 'em
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Here we go I'll tell ya ■ 
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■ She said you gotta do your fair share
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Now cough up half the rent
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I treat my body like a temple
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You treat yours like a tent
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But the right word at the right time
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May get me a little hug
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That's the difference between lightning
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And a harmless lightnin' bug
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Fruitcakes in the kitchen
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Fruitcakes on the street


[Chorus]
          D                 G        
Struttin' naked through the crosswalk
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In the middle of the week
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Halfbaked cookies in the oven
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Halfbaked people on the bus
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There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us
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The future captain's log stardate two thousand and something
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We're seven years from the millenium
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That's a science fiction fact
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Stanley Kubrick and his buddy Hal
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Now don't look that abstract
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So I'll put on my Bob Marley tape
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And practice what I preach
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Get Jah lost in the reggae mon
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As I walk along the beach
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Stay in touch with my insanity really is the only way
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It's a jungle out there kiddies
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Have a very fruitful day
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Hey Fruitcakes in the kitchen
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Fruitcakes on the street
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Struttin' naked through the crosswalk
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In the middle of the week
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Halfbaked cookies in the oven
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Halfbaked people on the bus
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There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us
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That's right you too yeah those crumbs are spread all around this universe
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I've seen fruitcakes
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I saw this guy in Santa Monica rollerskate naked through the crosswalk
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Down in New Orleans in the French market there are fruitcakes like you cannot believe
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■ New York forget it fruitcake city ■ Down island we've got fruitcakes ■
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Spread them crumbs around that's right


[Outro]
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■ We want 'em around ■
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Keep bakin' baby keep bakin'
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