By: Jimmy Buffett 

1973 

When I pay my bills 

Gonna leave these Tennessee hills 

Take my lady to the sea 

That's where we both come from 

That's where we both belong 

Think I'll go back to the Keys 



Chorus: 

'Cause I don't want the fame that brings confusion 

Where people recognize you on a plane 

All I want's the quiet and the comforts 

That livin' with my lovely lady brings 



Somehow we survived the double talk and jive 

Things are looking better all the time 

I owe her all I can 'cause she made me understand 

The simple way that we should live our lives 



Chorus: 

And I don't want the fame that brings confusion 

Where people recognize you on a plane 

All I want's the quiet and the comforts 

That livin' with my lovely lady brings 



Let me tell you now she can eat her own weight up in crab meat 

And there's plenty of that down there by the sea 

Well we're sailin' in those warm December breezes 

Sendin' picture postcards back to Tennessee 



Chorus: 

Yes and I don't want the fame that brings confusion 

Where people recognize you on a plane 

All I want's the quiet and the comforts 

That livin' with my lovely lady brings 

Yeah that livin' with my lovely lady brings