Florida
Song Notes:
"This had been an especially fun gig in Saskatoon... and Lightning Spirit, a native drum group, were playing with us... and the audience was just great that night - really right into it... singing along... We were playing this hall where they were right up against the stage... and so "Florida" on the record has got sort of a rocky kind of thing to it - almost like a 50s rock feel - and this night on the tour, we did it like a lounge tune and I sort of changed into Johnny Vegas somehow and just had this nice rapport with the audience and there's even a line where I held the microphone down to this one kid who was singing so earnestly - to sing a line - and that was really funny." - Greg Keelor
Lyrics
I remember Florida
The land of endless malls
Images of Elvis flicks
Convertibles and blondes
And I remember crying
As you walked away along the shore
The last words I heard you say were what a bore
And I remember drinking
In those air-conditioned bars
Putting all my quarters in a jukebox
With big silver stars
And I remember Nat King Cole
Singing a song about the rain
Oh I'm feeling blue again
Oh I'm feeling blue again
And it was just like a vacation
Yea I'm sure we had us some fun
Yea it was just like a vacation
And I swear we even sat out in the sun
You see my mother owned a trailer home
On West Broward past A1A
And to beat the North wind
We took a spin
To that tin can by the sea
Well I thought she was mine
But she was just passing time
She even passed out of town in my car
And left me with Nat King Cole
And the silver stars
Nat King Cole and the silver stars
And it was just like a vacation
Yea I'm sure we had us some fun
Yea it was just like a vacation
And I swear we even sat out in the sun
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