Keys mp3

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http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default ... usicAuthor: Al Carmichael/Robert George Keys Southern skies’d darkened, gulls scattered..dogs were barkin’ Ahead of the hurricane The Parrot Club was closin’, traffic was nearly frozen Outta Key Biscayne Pete pulled up his collar, fingered the fifty dollars In his valet coat Times were gettin’ tougher, his tips’d never cover The doctor bills he owed He ran out in the rain to fetch some purple Escalade He wondered what bought that ride if crime never paid Then he prayed that his windfall’d sail in from the seas That driver slipped him two bucks when Pete gave him the keys Pete made it home safely, found his pregnant wife bravely Waiting on the porch Seaweed in the gutters, as he boarded up the shudders Windows and doors Meanwhile a two-time felon, was on the south beach sellin’ Contraband again Two pistols in his waistband, to save him from the wasteland Of a Florida pen Crate in his purple Escalade, speedboat by the pier They had maybe twenty minutes, to get away free n clear Waves rose around the pilings, wind bendin’ old palm trees Suitcase of unmarked hundreds, for a crate full of keys The kingpin in the Caymans, he put all his payments In a shadow bank Contact in Key Largo, he’d take half the cargo To a Jersey gang But after all that schemin’, there were guns and screamin‘, During the doublecross That Escalade exploded, the fancy speedboat floated Awhile and then was lost Soon the storm blew over and left starfish on the beach Pete could see the moonlight had the tide on a leash Him and his wife were walkin’, along the peaceful seas They found a scuffed up suitcase, that’d washed back to the Keys