Well you country fools in your one horse town, you can laugh at me.
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It's plain as rain that you've never been down to the southern sea.
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To see me now is like watching a fish on dry land.
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I only wish you could see me down in the islands, mister that's my home.
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What a fool I was to leave the only happiness I've known.
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You see me coming, you wink your eye and call me Captain Jim.
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And when I don't do nothing but walk on by you say babe, get a load of him.
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All I need is the sea and the sky and I know where I stand.
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Instead of you hicks straight out of the sticks deciding I ain't a man.
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You'll never understand. Up here I'm a whisky bum but down there I'm a king.
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Sounds just like the angels up in heaven when they sing...
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welcome home, welcome home. Such a sight to see.
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Instead of some Salvation Army sister singing "Nearer My God To Thee."
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Now I know that Yankee whisky has taken away my mind,
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and I know that rum is the only drink suitable to mankind.
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And I know this tree I'm under is shaped entirely wrong.
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I need to see a gentle palm tree and I won't wait to long.
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I can feel that it's coming on strong,
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the first cold wind of winter is flapping in my clothes
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showing me the way with the direction that it blows,
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welcome home, welcome home. Let it blow, welcome home, welcome home.
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Welcome home, Such a sight to see.
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Instead of some Salvation Army sister singing "Nearer My God To Thee."
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Let me hear it...
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Captain Jim's Drunken Dream
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| James Taylor |
