beautiful swimmers

marilyn monroe did a night shoot in a pool

posing naked for a playboy spread

she was old

but she still was cool

when they wrapped right after midnight

and the crew went to the bar

norma jean just did the backstroke

like she was reachin' for a fallen star

beautiful swimmers they know how to move

slidin' cross the water like a steel guitar

beautiful swimmers stay in the groove

riding constant currents near and far

standing in a tidal pool just east of baltimore

watching little blue crabs navigate the eastern shore

every bayou stream and river in time runs to the sea

every flounder

tadpole

and softshell feels the choreography

there all beautiful swimmers who know how to move

sneakin' pass the draggers and the oyster bars

beautiful swimmers just feel the groove

painting liquid brush strokes like renoir

i miss my dorsal fin

i'm a big fish out of water

dwellin' on the coastal plain

now if i was as rich as the agacon

i tell you what i would do

buy every man

woman

and child on this planet

a mask and a snorkle too

then i'd leave this big migration

destination chesapeake bay

then we'd splash our way around the world

life is just a water ballet

come all you beautiful swimmers who know how to move

let's crowd across the water like a steel guitar

beautiful swimmers stay in the groove

fetching constant currents near and far