Lyric I Will Play For Gumbo

by: Jimmy Buffett

I don t smoke I don t shoot smack
But I got a spicy monkey riding on my back
Don t eat beignets too much sugar and dough
But I will play for gumbo
Hey I will play for gumbo

It started in my grandma s in her kitchen by the sea
She warned me when where she told me "son the first one s free"
It hit me like a rock or some TaeKwonDo
Cause I will play for gumbo
Oh Yeah I will play for gumbo

A piece of french bread with which to wipe my bowl
Good for the body, good for the soul
It s a little like religion and a lot like sex
You should never know when you re gonna get it next

At midnight in the Quarter or noon in Thibodaux
I will play for gumbo
Yes, I will play for gumbo

I m not talking quesadillas or a dozen Krispy Kremes
Or a pile of caviar that s a rich man s dream
No banana split or filet of pompano
No, I will play for gumbo
Yeah, I will play for gumbo


A piece of french bread with which to wipe my bowl
Good for the body, good for the soul
It s a little like religion and a lot like sex
You should never know when you re gonna get it next

It could be it s that sausage or those pretty pink shrimp
Or that popcorn rice that makes me blow up like a blimp
Maybe it s that voodoo from Marie Laveau
But I will play for gumbo
Hey I will play for gumbo

Now the Sauce Boss makes his cookin on the stage
Singing and a-picking for his nightly wage
Sweating and a frettin from his head to his toe
Playin and swayin with the gumbo
Prayin and buffetin with the gumbo

A piece of french bread with which to wipe my bowl
Good for the body, good for the soul
It s a little like religion and a lot like sex
You should never know when you re gonna get it next

>At midnight in the Quarter or noon in Thibodaux
I will play for gumbo
Hey I will play for gumbo

I will play for gumbo
I will play for gumbo