Lyrics Jimmy Buffett – Something So Feminine About A Mandoline

It was late in the evenin’
just a few of us pickin’,
but the lady she played
so easy and fine.

Cause there’s somethin’ so feminine,
about a mandolin;
the way that they feel,
the way that they ring.
Just to see slender fingers,
movin’ so fluid,
made this poor heart to sing.

And when I get older and I have a daughter,
I’ll teach her to sing, and play her my song
And I’ll tell her some stories I can barely remember
And hope that she will sing along.

Maybe one day she’ll take a fancy to pickin’,
‘Cause when that bug bites you,
you live with the string.
And if she could just strum a few simple measures
She could make some young man sing.

Cause there’s somethin’ so feminine
about a mandolin.
The way that they feel, the way that they ring.
And that evening in a pasture,
somewhere near Austin.
That mandolin made me sing,
Her mandolin made me sing.