It's Five O'Clock Somewhere

Album: Greatest Hits Volume II (2003)
Charted: 17
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  • The sun is hot and that old clock is movin' slow and so am I
    Workday passes like molasses in wintertime, but it's July
    I'm gettin' paid by the hour, and older by the minute
    My boss just pushed me over the limit
    I'd like to call him somethin', I think I'll just call it a day

    Pour me somethin' tall and strong
    Make it a Hurricane before I go insane
    It's only half past twelve, but I don't care
    It's five o'clock somewhere

    Well this lunch break is gonna take all afternoon and half the night
    Tomorrow morning I know there'll be hell to pay, hey, but that's all right
    I ain't had a day off now in over a year
    My Jamaican vacation's gonna start right here
    If the phone's for me, you can tell 'em I just sailed away

    And pour me somethin' tall and strong
    Make it a Hurricane before I go insane
    It's only half past twelve, but I don't care
    It's five o'clock somewhere

    I could pay off my tab
    Pour myself in a cab and be back to work before two
    At a moment like this, I can't help but wonder
    What would Jimmy Buffett do?

    Funny you should ask Alan
    I'd say, "Pour me somethin' tall and strong
    Make it a Hurricane before I go insane
    It's only half past twelve but I don't care"
    Pour me somethin' tall and strong
    Make it a Hurricane before I go insane
    It's only half past twelve but I don't care
    He don't care
    And I don't care
    It's five o'clock somewhere

    What time zone am I on? What country am I in?
    It doesn't matter, it's five o'clock somewhere
    It's always on five in Margaritaville, come to think of it
    I heard that
    You been there haven't you?
    Yes, sir
    I've seen your boat there
    I've been to Margaritaville a few times
    All right, well that's good
    Stumbled my way back
    Okay, well we just wanna make sure you can keep it between the navigational beacons
    Between the buoys, I tell you
    All right, well, it's five o'clock, let's go somewhere
    I'm ready, crank it up
    Let's get out of here
    I'm gone Writer/s: Donald Edmond Rollins, Jim Moose Brown
    Publisher: Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Spirit Music Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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  • Dalan from Notacityyet, MtGoodness ... if it's 8am in Montana that means it's Five O'Clock in Moscow Russia. (wink)
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