Everybody’s Got a Cousin in Miami

Lyrics

[Intro] Hey Jimmy, you know anybody in Miami that can get me a passport real quick? Oh yeah, yeah man. I've got a cousin up there. He knows everything about everything. Let's see if I've got his number here somewhere, yeah. No, he works out of a payphone, oh yeah, I've got it here. Okay. Today's international investor, whatever that is. Yeah, everybody's got a cousin in Miami. Here we go [Verse 1] It was was ninety miles to freedom, but they took the risk Though ocean was all motion and the wind was brisk The deadly gunboats never saw them in the pale moonlight They were off to Cayo Hueso by the dawn's early light [Verse 2] The gringo in the garden called the custom's man They answered all his questions, were allowed to land The ladies shared a hairbrush and their husbands had a Coke And they were taken up to Krome to meet with their kinfolk [Chorus 1] Everybody's got a cousin in Miami Everybody understands the impromptu Dancing in the heat to the beat that turns your clothing clammy Everybody needs to have a dream come true [Verse 3] In a third world jungle, not so far away Lives a natural drummer with a dream to play He's the brother of the lizard and the flying fish But he's enchanted by the pictures from the satellite dish [Verse 4] So his mama packs his bag, knots his red necktie Sends him north to her relations with a kiss goodbye He's bewildered by the plane ride and the immigration line Until he sees his Christian name upon a cardboard sign [Chorus 2] Everybody's got a cousin in Miami Everybody is an aborigine Dancing in the heat to the beat, it turns your clothing clammy Everybody want to win that lottery [Interlude] And the winning numbers are 7, 6, 5, 3, 7, 9 Uh, close, so close History lesson, history lesson [Bridge] It's hard to believe this city started as a trading post Home to the Seminole, pirate, and pioneer Between the river of grass and the old Mosquito Coast Before the railroad claimed the southernmost frontier [Verse 5] I am umbilically connected to the temperate zone It brought me life, it brought me love I never have outgrown Brought me one too many nights along that Biscayne shore And one too many mornings in the Grove drugstore [Verse 6] In one way or the other, we're all refugees Livin' out this easy life below the banyan trees Smoothing off the rougher edges of the culture clash We've got a style, we've got a look, we've got that old panache [Chorus 1] Everybody's got a cousin in Miami Everybody understands the impromptu Dancing in the heat to the beat, it turns your clothing clammy Everybody needs to have a dream come true [Interlude] I do, I do Let's take it down boys Down south to those little latitudes Ya ya, ya ya Thank you, Robert [Chorus 3] Everybody's got a cousin in Miami Everybody is an aborigine Dancing in the heat to the beat, it turns your clothing clammy Under the stars, in the bars down by the sea [Outro] Oh me now Everybody's got a cousin in Miami Everybody has to have that impromptu What are we doing now? Dancing in the heat to the beat It turns your clothing clammy Everybody needs to have a dream come true I do. I do. I had this dream the other day. I was down on the Equator. I didn't know whether I was up or down. I couldn't Tell the difference. It was hot and we were rockin'. And the Coral Reefers gathered around me and they said: We want a raise Or we're going to quit. And that's when I woke up. So play Boys, play