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