"Hey Jimmy, you know anybody in Miami, that can get me a passport real quick?"
"Oh yeah, yeah man. I've got a cousin up there. He knows everthing about everything. Let's see if I've got his number here somewhere, yeah, no"
"He works out of a payphone... oh yeah, I've got it here, okay"
"Today's international investor, whatever that is. Yeah, everybody's got a cousin in Miami. Here we go."
It was ninety miles to freedom, but they took the risk
Though the ocean was all motion and the wind was brisk
The deadly gunboats never saw them in the pale moonlight
They were off to Cayo Hueso by the dawns early light
The gringo in the garden called the, customs man
They answered all his questions, were allowed to land
The ladies shared a hairbrush and their husbands had a coke
Then they were taken up to Krome to meet with their kin folk
Everybody's got a cousin in Miami (everybody's got a cousin in Miami)
Everybody, understands the impromptu
Dancing in the heat to the beat, that turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)
Everybody, needs to have a dream come true
In a third world jungle, not so far away
Lives a natural drummer, with a dream to play
He's the brother of the lizard and the flying fish
But he's been enchanted by the pictures from the satellite dish
So his mama packs his bags, knots his red neck tie
Sends him north to her relations with a kiss good-bye
He's bewildered by the plane ride and the immigration line
Until he sees his Christian name upon a cardboard sign
Everybody's got a cousin in Miami (everybody's got a cousin in Miami)
Everybody, is an aborigine
Dancing in the heat to the beat, it turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)
Everybody wants to win that lottery
"And the winning numbers are... 7, 6, 5, 3, 7, 9. Uh, close, so close."
"History lesson, history lesson"
It's hard to believe this city started as a trading post
Home to the Seminole, pirate and pioneer
Between the river of grass and the old Mosquito Coast
Before the railroad claimed the southernmost frontier
I am umbilically connected to the temperate zone
It brought me life, it brought me love, I never have outgrown
Brought me one too many nights along that Biscayne shore
And one too many mornings in the Grove drugstore
And one way or the other we're all, refugees
Livin' out this easy life below the banyan trees
Smoothing off the rougher edges of the, culture clash
We've got a style, we've got a look, we've got that old panache
Everybody's got a cousin in Miami (everybody's got a cousin in Miami)
Everybody, understands the impromptu
Dancing in the heat to the beat, that turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)
Everybody, needs to have a dream come true
"I do, I do. Let's take it down boys. Down south ... to those little latitudes."
"Ya ya, ya ya"
"Thank you Robert"
Everybody's got a cousin in Miami (everybody's got a cousin in Miami)
Everybody, is an aborigine
Dancing in the heat to the beat, it turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)
Under the stars in the bars down by the sea
Oh, me now
Everybody's got a cousin in Miami (everybody's got a cousin in Miami)
Everybody, has to have that impromptu
"What are we doing now?"
Dancing in the heat to the beat, it turns your clothing clammy (ooooohhhhh)
Everybody needs to have a dream come true
"I do. I do. I had this dream the other day. I was down on the Equator. I didn't know whether I was up or down."
"I couldn't tell the difference. It was hot and we were rockin'."
"And the Coral Reefers gathered around me and they said: We want a raise or we're going to quit. And that's when I woke up. So play boys, play."
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