He Went Back to Her - Roxan

(Jimmy Buffett) He went to Paris lookin' for answers To questions that bothered him so He was impressive young and agressive Savin' the world on his own. Warm summer breezes French wine and cheeses Put his ambition at bay The summers and winters scattered like splinters And four or five years slipped away. He went to England played the piano And married an actress named Kim They had a good life she was a good wife And bore him a young son named Jim. All of the answers and all of the questions He locked in his attic one day 'Cause he liked the quiet clean country livin' And twenty more years slipped away. --- Instrumental --- War took his baby bombs killed his lady And left him with only one eye His body was battered his whole world was shattered All he could do was just cry. While the tears were fallin' he was recallin' Answers that he never found So he hopped in a freighter skidded the ocean And left England without a sound. Now he lives in the island fishes the pilin' And drinks his green label each day Writin' his memoirs losin' his hearin' But he don't care what most people say. After eighty-six years of perpetual motion If he likes you he'll smile and say Well, some of it's magic probably tragic But I had a good life all the way. He went to Paris lookin' for answers To questions that bothered him so...

Alexander Ghenkis Khan Wellington Napoleon Paul Revere, Dick Turpin and many a highwayman Raiders, crusaders, cavalry and Red Indians They all used horses for whatever was there plan Against the Zulus and the Moors, Brits, Franken's and the Boers Used horses for fighting on many a foreign shore For their fightin needs had to have a horse between their knees That's when the horse went off to war Off to war off to war that's how the horse went off to war Off to war off to war that's how the horse went off to war Then the world was doin' fine no ponies workin' in the mine They were in the circus and the rodeo Put them in their boxes for shows and huntin' foxes Pig-sticking racing and a game they called polo And they used them ponies for royal ceremonies Pullin carts and ploughing that's what they used ' em for "Cause they realized war machines are mechanized That's when the horse came back from war Back from war back from war that's how the horse came back from war Back from war back from war that's how the horse came back from war With voluntary amnesia the world forgot Rhodesia When the terrorists came in they were another kind of foe Huntin' them in vain in difficult terrain Trackin' them on foot was cumbersome and slow Got back in the saddle and then went into battle They went off to settle up the score Mounted soldiers dressed in cammo with rifles full of ammo That's when the horse went back to war Back to war back to war that's when the horse went back to war Back to war back to war that's when the horse went back to war Back to war back to war that's when the horse went back to war Back to war back to war that's when the horse went back to war