Everybody's Got A Cousin In Miami

"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 everthing 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."

It was ninety miles to freedom, but they took the risk

Though the 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 dawns early light

The gringo in the garden called the, customs man

They answered all his questions, were allowed to land

The ladies shared a hairbrush and their husbands had a coke

Then they were taken up to Krome to meet with their kin folk

Everybody's got a cousin in Miami (everybody's got a cousin in Miami)

Everybody, understands the impromptu

Dancing in the heat to the beat, that turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)

Everybody, needs to have a dream come true

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 been enchanted by the pictures from the satellite dish

So his mama packs his bags, knots his red neck tie

Sends him north to her relations with a kiss good-bye

He's bewildered by the plane ride and the immigration line

Until he sees his Christian name upon a cardboard sign

Everybody's got a cousin in Miami (everybody's got a cousin in Miami)

Everybody, is an aborigine

Dancing in the heat to the beat, it turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)

Everybody wants to win that lottery

"And the winning numbers are... 7, 6, 5, 3, 7, 9. Uh, close, so close."

"History lesson, history lesson"

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

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

And 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

Everybody's got a cousin in Miami (everybody's got a cousin in Miami)

Everybody, understands the impromptu

Dancing in the heat to the beat, that turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)

Everybody, needs to have a dream come true

"I do, I do. Let's take it down boys. Down south ... to those little latitudes."

"Ya ya, ya ya"

"Thank you Robert"

Everybody's got a cousin in Miami (everybody's got a cousin in Miami)

Everybody, is an aborigine

Dancing in the heat to the beat, it turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)

Under the stars in the bars down by the sea

Oh, me now

Everybody's got a cousin in Miami (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 (ooooohhhhh)

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."