Released: October 14, 2008
Songwriter: James T. Slater Casey Beathard
Producer: Buddy Cannon Kenny Chesney
[Verse 1]
It was early one mornin'
Playa del Carmen
That's when I first met Jose
He had a 12 foot Schooner
A 3 foot cooler
Full of the catch of the day
And he was wrinkled from grinning
From all of the sun he had been in
He was barefoot, cerveza in hand
He said "Gracias senor", when I paid him too much for
All of the Snapper he had
Now I told him my friend it ain't nothing
In the best broken Spanish I knew
I said I make a good living
Back home where I'm from
He smiled and said Amigo me too
[Chorus]
He said I fish and I play my guitar
I laugh at the bar with my friends
I go home to my wife
I pray every night
I can do it all over again
[Verse 2]
Somewhere over Texas
I thought of my Lexus
And all the stuff I work so hard for
And all the things that I've gathered
From climbing that ladder
Didn't make much sense anymore
They say my nest egg ain't ready to hatch yet
They keep holding my feet to the fire
They call it paying the price
So that one day in life
I'll have what I need to retire
[Chorus]
And just fish
And play my guitar
And laugh at the bar with my friends
And go home to my wife
And pray every night
I can do it all over again
[Bridge]
And to think that I thought for a while there that I had it made
When the truth is I'm really just dying
To live like Jose
[Chorus]
And just fish
Play my guitar
Laugh at the bar with my friends
Go home to my wife
Pray every night
I can do it all over again
[Outro]
Wouldn't that be the life?
Wouldn't that be the life?
It was early one mornin'
Playa del Carmen
That's when I first met Jose
He had a 12 foot Schooner
A 3 foot cooler
Full of the catch of the day
And he was wrinkled from grinning
From all of the sun he had been in
He was barefoot, cerveza in hand
He said "Gracias senor", when I paid him too much for
All of the Snapper he had
Now I told him my friend it ain't nothing
In the best broken Spanish I knew
I said I make a good living
Back home where I'm from
He smiled and said Amigo me too
[Chorus]
He said I fish and I play my guitar
I laugh at the bar with my friends
I go home to my wife
I pray every night
I can do it all over again
[Verse 2]
Somewhere over Texas
I thought of my Lexus
And all the stuff I work so hard for
And all the things that I've gathered
From climbing that ladder
Didn't make much sense anymore
They say my nest egg ain't ready to hatch yet
They keep holding my feet to the fire
They call it paying the price
So that one day in life
I'll have what I need to retire
[Chorus]
And just fish
And play my guitar
And laugh at the bar with my friends
And go home to my wife
And pray every night
I can do it all over again
[Bridge]
And to think that I thought for a while there that I had it made
When the truth is I'm really just dying
To live like Jose
[Chorus]
And just fish
Play my guitar
Laugh at the bar with my friends
Go home to my wife
Pray every night
I can do it all over again
[Outro]
Wouldn't that be the life?
Wouldn't that be the life?
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- Get Along
- Better Boat
- American Kids
- Anything But Mine
- Wild Child
- Setting the World on Fire
- When the Sun Goes Down
- Come Over
- All the Pretty Girls
- The Good Stuff
- Tip of My Tongue
- You and Tequila
- Don’t Blink
- Somewhere With You
- I Go Back
- There Goes My Life
- The Boys of Fall
- She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy
- Summertime
- Pirate Flag
- Here and Now
- Save It For A Rainy Day
- Ends of the Earth
- Knowing You