Song Description

The barons of the Gilded Age were the first snowbirds. Now everybody wants to be in Florida on a winters? day. Ian Fleming used this locale for the card scene in ?Goldfinger?.

Lyrics

Floridiana Hotel

First week of the new year it?s 80 degrees
The rest of the country is in a shivering freeze
Breakfast on the balcony salt spray in the air
It almost seems like it aint fair

And the place to be is at the Floridiana Hotel
Soaking up the sunshine riding the swells
Won?t you send me a postcard from the Floridiana Hotel
Bringing me blue skies and wishing me well

Alcazar and the Fountainbleu Royal Palm and the Breakers too
Living it up in the Gilded Age
Rockefeller Carnegie the Vanderbilts are all down to see
Cause the winter sun is all the rage

And the place to be is at the Floridiana Hotel
Fishing the Gulf Stream riding the swells
Won?t you send me a postcard from the Floridiana Hotel
Bringing me blue skies and wishing me well

It?s the beautiful people parade out on Ocean Drive
G-String bikinis oh man alive
How I wish I could be there sipping on a dacquiri
I?m already headed south in my mind

And the place to be is at the Floridiana Hotel
Swimming with the dolphins riding the swells
Won?t you send me a postcard from the Floridiana Hotel
Bringing me blue skies and wishing me well
Won?t you bring me blue skies and wish me well