I Will Play for Gumbo - Live

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