There's a cowboy in the jungle
And he looks so out of place
With his shrimpskin boots and
his cheap Cheroots
And his skin as white as paste
Headin' south to Paraguay
Where
the gauchos sing and shout
Now he's stuck in Porto Bello
Since his money all ran out
So
he hangs out with the sailors
Might and day they're raisin' hell
And his original
destination's just another
Story that he loves to tell.
With no plans for the
future
He still seems in control
From a bronco ride to a ten foot tide
He just had to
learn to roll.
Roll with the punches
Play all of his hunches
Made the best of
whatever came his way
What he lacked in ambition
He made up with intuition
Plowing
straight ahead come what may.
Steel band in the distance
And their music floats across
the bay
While American women in muumuus
Talk about all the things they did today
And
their husbands quack about fishing
As they slug those rum drinks down
Discussing who caught
what
and who sat on his butt
But it's the only show in town.
They're tryin' to
drink all the punches
They all may lose their lunches
Tryin' to cram lost years into five or
six says
Seems that blind ambition erased their intuition
Plowin' straight ahead come what
may.
I don't want to live on that kind of island
No, I don't want to swim in a roped
off sea.
Too much for me, too much for me
I've got to be where the wind and the water are
free.
Alone on a midnight passage
I can count the falling stars
While the Southern
Cross and the satellites
They remind me of where we are
Spinning around in
circles
Living it day to day
And still
