Jimmy Buffett Far Side Of The World Lyrics

Far Side Of The World Lyrics

Ramadan is over,

The new moon's shown her face,

I'm halfway round
the planet,

In a most unlikely place.



Following my song
line

Past bamboo shacks and shops

Behind a jitney packed like
sardines,

With bananas piled on top.



I ran away from
politics,

It's too bizarre at home.

Away I flew, tuned into Blue

"Maybe Amsterdam or Rome"



Awakened by a stewardess,

With
Spain somewhere below.

On the threshold of adventure,

God I do love
this job so.



So while I make my move

On the big board game

Up and down a Spanish highway,

Some things remain the same.

Girls
meet boys

and the boys tease girls

I'm heading out this morning,

For the Far Side of the World.



Oh I believe in song lines

Obvious and not

I'd ridden them like camels

To some most
peculiar spots.



They run across the oceans

Through mountains
and saloons

And tonight out to the dessert

Where I sit atop this
dune.



I was destined for this vantage point

Which is so far
from the Sea

I've lived it in the pages of Saint-Exupery



From Paris to Tunisia

Casablanca to Dakar

I was riding long
before I flew

Through the wind and sand and stars.



Caravan

Ride that hump

And Timbuktu's a jillion bumps

Sleeping bags and battle flags

Are coiled and furled

That's the
way you travel

To the far side of the world!



A Sunset framed
by lightening bolts

Burns a lasting memory

And a string of tiny
twinkling lights

adorn the sausage tree.

While the embers from the
log fire

Flicker, fly, and twirl

Then drift off toward the
cosmos

From the Far Side of the World.

Well it's Christ