By: jimmy buffett   1970   As large as life she stood there   Kissed my cheek and called my old nickname   And though several years had passed   Both of us still looked quite the same   I said hi relaxed a bit   Then asked her how she'd been all these years   She told me she was feeling fine   Came to see a friend who lived up here      Told me she had finished school   And then went on to college for a year   I asked if she had married   Slowly down her cheek there came a tear   She said just an itchy eye   It must be the weather way up here   Told her I can't stand the cold   It freezes me and I can't feel my ears      We talked a bit about mobile   And thought about how it has never changed   I told her I was a comin' home   To spend some time and hoped it wouldn't rain   She asked if she could see me then   And we could spend some time now and then   Because I lived so far away   Was still no chance why we could not be friends      I drove her to the waiting plane   Watched that big jet streaking through the sky   Thought about the sad young girl   And the time that I just saw her cry   That flame must still be burning bright   I think I'll catch a later flight today   It's time for me to go on home   And spend a day or two down by the bay