Jimmy Buffett - The Ballad of Skip Wiley lyrics

Wild as a ricochet

Picture if you can

When the everglades ran

From the gulf coast to Biscayne Bay

He's gonna give it back to the gators

Lock the tourists up in theme parks and zoos

He says "join me for lunch at the reptiles brunch

Where the Barometer Soup is you"

He's crazy and dangerous

But who else can you trust

He's the outlaw in all of us

The environmental terrorist

Chorus

You can mess with the mouse in Orlando

Jilt a tourist in St. Augustine

You can shoplift all day at Blockbuster

But you can't steal the Orange Bowl Queen

No you can't steal the Orange Bown Queen

Verse

There were crimes of epic proportions

All part of Skip Wiley's crusade

Tourists were cackin' and tourists were packin'

While he and Skink cooled their heels in the shade

Then came the citrus sensation

"Welcome to the revolution" he said

With a pirate's persona he snatched the gridiron Madonna

And the big movers called for his head

He's crazy and dangerous

But who else can you trust

He's the outlaw in all of us

The environmental terrorist

Chorus

You can mess with the mouse in Orlando

Jilt a tourist in St. Augustine

You can rag on the Miami Dolphins

But you can't steal the Orange Bowl Queen

No you can't steal the Orange Bowl Queen (x2)

Well Skip's caper it kind of backfired

And got the orange juice barons rather upset

In the light of bad moods, these manhunts ensued

But Skip easily slipped through the net

He was last seen atop a mangrove

Perched like a wounded osprey

He was not meant to last, he belongs to the past

And I hope he gets there one day

He's crazy and dangerous

But who else can you trust

He's the outlaw in all of us

The environmental terrorist

Chorus

You can mess with the mouse in Orlando

Jily a tourist in St. Augustine

You can shoplift your days at Blockbuster

But you can't steal the Orange Bown Queen

No you can't steal the Orange Bown Queen (x2