Verse 1

It was early one mornin'


Playa del Carmen


That's when I first met Jose

He had a 12 foot Schooner


A 3 foot cooler


Full of the catch of the day

And he was wrinkled from grinnin'


From all of the sun he had been in


He was barefoot, cerveza in hand

He said “Gracias senor”, when I paid him too much for


All of the Snapper he had


Now I told him my friend it ain't nothin'

In the best broken Spanish I knew


I said I make a good livin'


Back home where I'm from

He smiled and said Amigo me too





(Chorus)

He said I fish and I play my guitar


I laugh at the bar with my friends


I go home to my wife

I pray every night


I can do it all over again




Verse 2


Somewhere over Texas


I thought of my Lexus

And all the stuff I work so hard for


And all the things that I've gathered


From climbing that ladder

Didn't make much sense anymore


They say my nest egg ain't ready to hatch yet


They keep holding my feet to the fire

They call it paying the price


So that one day in life


I'll have what I need to retire




(Chorus)

And just fish


And play my guitar

And laugh at the bar with my friends

And go home to my wife


And pray every night

I can do it all over again




And to think that I thought for a while there that I had it made

When the truth is I'm really just dying


To live like Jose



And just fish


Play my guitar

Laugh at the bar with my friends

Go home to my wife


Pray every night

I can do it all over again



Wouldn't that be the life?


Wouldn't that be the life?



Submitted by Seth Good


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