By: Jimmy Buffett, Dan Fogelberg 

1986 

Found myself a matchbook 

Beside some hotel bed 

Opened it up and looked inside 

And this is what it said 



Chorus: 

Get on back to school 

Domino college, back to school 

Boneyard full of knowledge 

W-w-w-orking vacation in a third world nation 

Back to school (going back to school, going back, back to school) 



Fly down to Miami 

Get yourself a boat 

Fill it full of suntan oil 

And rent yourself a goat 



Ain't no registration 

Ain't no student loan 

You may not learn to read or write 

But you will surely learn to roll dem bones 



Chorus: 

Get on back to school 

Domino college, back to school 

Boneyard full of knowledge 

W-w-w-orking vacation in a third world nation 

Back to school (going back to school, going back, back to school) 



They don't rap your knuckles 

If you cut the class 

They just track you through the jungle boy 

Then they kick your ass 



It's a different kind of domino theory 

They teach you down in Butler town 

If you lose you buy the booze 

And then the student body all falls down 



Chorus: 

They can't get back to school 

Domino college, back to school 

Fountain of knowledge 

W-w-w-orking vacation in a third world nation 

Back to school (going back, back to school) 

Get on back 



Make your parents hate you 

Be a big disgrace 

Act just like a domino 

And fall on your face 



Chorus: 

You can't get back to school 

Domino college, back to school 

Fountain of knowledge 

There ain't no graduation from this kind of education 

Back to school (going back, back to school) 

W-w-w-orking vacation in a third world nation 

Back to school (going back, back to school) 



Be true to your school 



-- Spoken: 

"Oh, Jan & Dean be true to your school. Big six, big six, whose got it? Goddamn Robert when you gonna play man, hey man, say, you know whose turn it is." 



Coda: 

Back to school (going back to school) repeat and fade