Somewhere Over China - Jimmy Buffett, Elliot Scheiner

For the crazy flying tigers

Just a semi-normal person

Thought he had the future planned

Then he won some silly sweepstakes

Now he had a hundred grand

Never stopped to think of taxes

He was gone before they knew

With a flair for ol romantics

To the orient he flew

When they fueled in papeete

Placed a call to big mamou

With an honest explanation

Just to tell the whole damn truth

Its his one chance in a million

Whod deny the simple fact

twas no use to talk it over

Hed be home when he got back

Now hes somewhere over china

Lookin down on all the trails

On the mountains lookin back at him

Its a real live fairy tale

Put a little distance

Between causes and effects

Like a day old fortune cookie

Askin who or what comes next

What the hell did marco polo think

When he ran into the wall

Or the crazy flying tigers

Doin spins and loops and stalls

Just a taste for somethin different

Perking up a borin day

Now our man from louisiana

Feels exactly the same way

Theyre all somewhere over china

Shanghai or old peking

On a plane or a boat in an envelope

Real adventure has its ring

Just to put a little distance

Between fact and fantasy

Still six thousand miles away from

Where Id really rather be How I would love to drive the shuttle

Just to feel the engines roar

And to operate the levers

That control the payload doors

I could buzz the himalayas

Barrel roll above hong kong

Set her down in san francisco

To the clangin of a gong

Were all somewhere over china

Headin east or headin west

Takin time to live a little

Flyin so far from the nest

Just to put a little distance

Between causes and effects

Like an ancient fortune teller

Knowin who and what comes next