Don't Let The Truth Get In The Way

On a steamer bound for Baltimore I said, "That's no fun, I've been there before." So I jumped ship near Singapore With a cook from Mexico I got a bowl of shark-fin soup I ducked into a bar for a couple a scoops Played some Texas stud with a circus troop And they cleaned me out of dough Cleaned me out of dough Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story No harm, no foul, no crime Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story It'll get them every time At dawn they all went back to bed So I went to Borneo instead Had a hair-of-the dog for my shrunken head With the sultan of Brunei Had a small bit of a seizure On the way to Micronesia Got a bad case of amnesia And forgot to say goodbye Forgot to say goodbye Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story No harm, no foul, no crime Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story It'll get them every time Stopped in Tajikistan on the way to Iran I took a break in Jamaica to work on my tan I swam from Cayo Fragoso to Carriacou I climbed Machu Pichu in Darkest Peru Had a pint with the pope and played pool with the queen Who swam circles around a synchronized swimming team I once had a job riding bulls in Montana I taught Jimi Hendrix the Star-Spangled Banner I've been to Morocco, Malawi, Macau I know how to fly but I won't tell you how Been to Morocco, Malawi, Macau I know how to fly but I won't tell you how Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story No harm, no foul, no crime Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story It'll get them every time I bought an ice cold Coca-Cola From a Congolese high roller Got deported from Angola To a castle on the Rhine Ask anyone that knew me The Emir of Bahrain sued me I was in some Blockbuster Movie And I didn't make a dime (Oh, Jack) Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story No harm, no foul, no crime Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story It'll get them every time Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story No harm, no foul, no crime Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story It'll get them every time