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Barometer Soup is the 20th studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Released in August 1995, one year after Fruitcakes in May 1994, this album represented a return to his one-album-per-year writing and recording pace of the 70s and 80s.

Following the release of Fruitcakes in the previous year, Buffett returned to songwriting and recorded the collection in Key West, Florida in January and February 1995. The album continued Buffett's album chart success begun with Fruitcakes and reached #6 on the Billboard 200. The album was also certified "Platinum" by the RIAA on 19 December 2004.

The first single from the album, "Mexico" reached #10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart but "Bank of Bad Habits," the second single, did not chart.

As usual, Buffett went on tour in the summer of 1995, although instead of basing it on the album, he called it the "Domino College Tour", after a song released on the box set three years prior; the song was co-written by Buffett and Dan Fogelberg. Songs from Barometer Soup still appeared regularly in the tour, including Don't Chu-Know, Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Mexico. Less frequently on the tour were Jimmy Dreams, the title track, Bank Of Bad Habits, and The Night I Painted the Sky

"Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is based on the short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Buffett regarded the song as his favorite on the album. "The Ballad of Skip Wiley" is based primarily on Carl Hiaasen's book Tourist Season (although it also references the character of Skink Tyree, who appeared not in Tourist Season, but in 5 other Hiaasen novels).

The final song on this album is a cover of James Taylor's song "Mexico". Buffett noted his appreciation for some cover songs, and regarding "Mexico", he said "I always loved that song... and it's a nice way to pay homage to your friends. I think the audience really likes it, too."

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09: Don't Chu-Know

Barometer Soup Released on August 1st, 1995 by MCA Records

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Don't Chu-Know
Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Jay Oliver, Roger Guth, and Peter Mayer
From the album Barometer Soup

You can spend all your days in the grind
Converting your nickels to dimes
You could stuff all your pockets till they overflow
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Don’t chu know
Don’t chu know
Don’t chu know

You can say you’re too old to be young
You think you’re too smart to be dumb
But the well-seasoned pro knows how long he can go
Don’t chu know
Don’t chu know
Don’t chu know

You can sing every song that’s been sung
Offer the moon and the sun
But if you ask me it’s all been both said and been done

We’re just recycled history machines
Cavemen in faded blue jeans
It’s the unanswered question in each one of us
Don’t chu know
Don’t chu know
Don’t chu know

The more we learn the less we know
What you keep is what you can’t let go
Take it fast or take it slow
Just one way for you to go
Don’t chu know
Let’s go now

You can sing every song that’s been sung
Offer the moon and the sun
But if you ask me it’s not in the race that you run

It’s that outcast in each one of us
Who get’s the girl that is too glamorous
There’s no one to deceive it’s just all make believe
Don’t chu know
Don’t chu know
Don’t chu know
Oh….
Don’t chu know
Don’t chu know
Don’t chu know

Don’t chu know
Don’t chu know
Don’t chu know

I Don’t Know
I Don’t Know

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