[Intro]
       

             
The sun is hot

             
 and that old 

            
clock is movin

             
 slow and so a

    
m I
             
Workday passes

             
 like molassas

            
 in wintertime

             
 but it's July
             
I'm getting pa

              
id by the hour

     
 and over by t

he minute
             
my boss just p

         
ushed me over 

the limit

I'd like to ca

ll him somethi

ng
             
I think I'll j

              
ust call it a 


day

[Chorus]
             
Pour me someth

    
ing tall and s

trong
             
make it a hurr

             
icane before I

 go insane
             
It's only half

             
 past 1 but I 

       
don't care
              
It's five o'cl

                       
ock somewhere

             
This lunch bre

             
ak is gonna ta

            
ke all afterno

             
on and half th

       
e night
             
Tomorrow morni

             
n' I know ther

            
e'll be hell t

              
o pay but baby

             
 that's alrigh

 
t
             
Ain't had a da

             
y off now in o

ver a year
             
my Jamacan vac

              
ation's gonna 


start right he

re
             
if the phone's

              
 for me you ca

             
n tell em I ju

           
st sailed away

[Chorus]
             
Pour me someth

    
ing tall and s

trong
             
make it a hurr

             
icane before I

 go insane
             
It's only half

             
 past 1 but I 

       
don't care
              
It's five o'cl

                       
ock somewhere

[Bridge]
      

[Outro]

I can pay off 

my tab
       
pour myself in

 a cab
             
and be back to

             
 work before

At a momment l

ike this
  
I can't help b

ut wonder
            
what would Jim

          
my Buffet do