(Brian Wilson/Joe Thomas/Jimmy Buffett)
New Executive Music/On The Fox Music/Coral Reefer Music

Got a letter from a long lost cousin of mine

Who owns a little piece of heaven in the Argentine
Itæ?¯ a different planet, itæ?¯ a different place
He calls it out of this world without traveling to space

Itæ?¯ not just a lesson in geography
No equation to unravel algebraically
Itæ?¯ written in the wind and on the tropical sea
From south of the equator it keeps callin?to me

South American well you know I would
South American if I only could
I wanna be, I wanna be going back

You only get to heaven if you chase your dreams
Let the paparazzi flash, let the tabloid scream
Iæ?³e been around too long to care what anyone says
Iæ?¦ hungry and Iæ?¦ doing lunch with Cameron Diaz

South American sheæ?¯ got that tango look
South American sheæ?£l read you like a book
I wanna be, I wanna be going back

It rolls off my tongue like a magical phrase
A simple translation this message conveys
Gimme that, gimme that South American girl

I wanna be, I wanna be where itæ?¯ at
South American Iæ?¦ not on some trip
South American I just long for a ship
A sailing boat or anything that floats
Going back