JIMMY BUFFETT - Last Mango In Paris lyrics

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Last mango in paris<br>By: jimmy buffett, marshall chapman, will jennings, michael utley<br>1985<br>For all the living legends I've had the pleasure to know. there's<br>Still so much to be done.<br>I went down to captain tony's<br>To get out of the heat<br>Then I heard a voice call out to me<br>Son come have a seat<br>I had to search my memory<br>As I looked into those eyes<br>Our lives change like the weather<br>But a legend never dies<br><br>Chorus:<br>He said I ate the last mango in paris<br>Took the last plane out of saigon<br>Took the first fast boat to china<br>And jimmy there's still so much to be done<br><br>I had a third world girl in buzios<br>With a pistol in each hand<br>She always kept me covered<br>As we moved from land to land<br><br>I had a damn good run on wall street<br>With my high fashion model wife<br>I woke up dry beneath the african sky<br>Just me and my swiss army knife<br><br>Chorus:<br>I ate the last mango in paris<br>Took the last plane out of saigon<br>Took the first fast boat to china<br>And jimmy there's still so much to be done<br><br>We shot the breeze for hours<br>As the sun fell from the sky<br>And like the sun he disappeared<br>Before my very eyes<br><br>It was somewhere past dark-thirty<br>And I went back to the head<br>I read upon the dingy wall<br>The words the old man said:<br><br>I ate the last mango in paris<br>Took the last plane out of saigon<br>Took the first fast boat to china<br>And jimmy there's still so much to be done<br><br>I ate the last mango in paris<br>Took the last plane out of saigon<br>Took the first fast boat to china<br>And jimmy there's still so much to be done<br><br>That's why we wander and follow la vie dansante<br><br>- notes:<br>Background vocals: timothy b. schmit