JIMMY BUFFETT - Earl’s Dead – Cadillac For Sale lyrics

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Earl’s dead - Cadillac for sale

The Eldorado sits there on the Tamiami Trail

Sing on the windshield tells a whole tale

Earl’s dead - Cadillac for sale

He was a circus man when they first met

He was fired from a cannon into a net

Yeah, the money was good, he always hit the bull’s eye

Saving for the car one day he will buy

No, he wasn’t thinking of some average ride

A human cannonball has a lot of pride

If you’re gonna live large you need a high, dramatic

Eldorado Biarritz for this wild acrobatic

And the road is rigged with shark like fins

And that’s where this little love tale begins

A rearview mirror puts it all in scale

Earl’s dead - Cadillac for sale

She was an Everglades girl, partly Seminole

With an urge for gold and an wondering soul

With a name like Moonbine she knew she’d never stay

That handsome human bullet stole her heart away

It was a Saturday night after the midnight show

She was staring at the car when he said “hello”

Didn’t take too much to move her off the reservation

Just a good looking boy with the right transportation

And now Earl is wed, Moonbine’s got her veil

They’re towing that cannon down the Tamiami Trail

He’s got the talent, she’s got brains

Earl and Moonbine left the land of sugarcane

So they drove down to Panama and back up to Maine

Had so much fun, hell, they did it again

Crossing cities off the map as they shot down the road

Going touring the cannon, things could explode

Now a Cadillac was always an Elvis thing

Polished chrome and golden was the birth of bling

They came with personality, they made you a star

God may have made the Earth, but man made that car

Now all the way back to the time of James Dean

Car crash song chewed up heat roads and machines

Sick minds, stop signs and uncontrolled swerves

But Earl and his Caddy could handle killer curves

So when the big top folded, Earl took his last drive

Moonbine kisses her boy goodbye, his exit had arrived

She shot his ashes across the gulf from that aged and rusty gun

Nomads know when the show is done

And Earl is dead, he's been air mailed

And that Eldorado’s waiting on the Tamiami Trail

For some shameless entertainers to blow it again

Earl’s dead - Cadillac for sale

Earl’s dead, Earl’s dead

Thanks to Merlock for correcting these lyrics