JIMMY BUFFETT - Baby's Gone Shopping lyrics

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Baby's Gone Shopping

By: Jimmy Buffett

1988

There are ten pictures of Marilyn Monroe in my studio and I always fantasize while I'm singing about being a chauffeur in the car as Marilyn hits the stores on Madison Avenue and then she asks me to go to Mexico with her.

Baby's gone shoppin' she's looking around

She's checkin' out the clothes on the boys in town

Pick up this drop off that

Stares at her pictures from the Fotomat

Oh she likes what she sees

But she's afraid of what she needs

She should be here with me

She should be here with me

But I don't make it easy, I'm no day at the beach

Just an old road dog gettin' harder to teach

Hang on this planet, hang on each twirl

Scatter my belongin's all over this world

I get more wrapped up each day

She's lookin' further away

She should be here with me

She should be here with me

(horn solo)

I'm no good at conversation (No good)

I don't want a proclamation (Oh, no, no)

I just think that we could use

A little face-to-face communication

Ow!

I've been thinkin', thinkin' this through

It's time to stop all this selfishness both me and you

I'll stop from here, you stop from there

We'll meet somewhere in the middle darlin' I don't care

I don't want no more heartaches it's time to put on the brakes

She should be here with me

I don't want no more heartaches it's time to slam on 'em brakes

She should be here with me

Baby's gone shoppin', she should be here with me

No more bar hoppin', she should be here with me

Now, I don't know but I've been told

That city livin' is awfully cold

She should be right here, here with me (he should be...)

Brrrrrr... (...here with me)

Baby's gone shoppin', she should be here with me (he should be...)

(...here with me)

No more bar, no more bar, no more bar hoppin'

Should be here with me (he should be here with me)

She should be here with me

She should be here with me (he should be...)

(...here with me)

No more bar, no more bar, no more bar hoppin'

Should be here with me (he should be here with me)

She should be here with me (gone shoppin')

Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-baby's gone shoppin' (gone shoppin')

Coda:

She should be here with me

She should be here with me (gone shoppin', he should be...)

She should be here with me (he should be here with me)

She should be here with me (gone shoppin', he should be here!)