Jimmy Buffett
Pencil Thin Mustache

Carter Style

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Now they’re making movies in old black and white
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   With happy endings, where nobody fights
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So if you find yourself in that nostalgic rage
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Honey, jump right up and show your age

	Chorus
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       I wish I had a pencil thin moustache
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          The “Boston Blackie” Kind
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       A two-toned Ricky Ricardo Jacket
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       And an Autographed picture of Andy Devine

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I remember bein’ buck-toothed and skinny
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Writin’ fan letters to Sky’s niece penny
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Oh I wish I had a pencil then moustache
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Then I could solve some mysteries too


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Then its Bandstand, Disneyland, growing up fast
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Drinkin’ on a fake I. D. 
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Yeah, Rama of the Jungle was everyone’s Bawana
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But only jazz musicians were smoking marijuana
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Yeah, I wish I had a pencil thin moustache,
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Then I could solve some mysteries too


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Then it’s Flat top, dirty bob, coppin’ a feel
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Grubbin on the livingroom floor so sore
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Yeah, they send you off to college
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Try to gain a little knowledge
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But all you want a do is, learn how to score


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Yeah, now I’m get old, I don’t wear underwear
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I don’t go to church and I don’t cut my hair
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But I can go to movies and see it all there 
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Just the way that it used to be

	(Chorus)
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Oh I could be anyone I wanted to be 
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Maybe suave Errol Flynn or the Sheik of Araby
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If I only had a pencil thin moustache,
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The I could do some cruisin’ too


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Yeah Bryl-cream, a little dab’ll do ya,
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I could do some cruisin’ too.