After Jimmy Buffett dies and enters the
Pearly Gates, God takes him on a tour. He shows Jimmy a little two
bedroom house with a faded parrot banner hanging from the front porch.
"This is your house, Jimmy. Most people don't get their own houses up here," God says.
Jimmy looks at the house, then turns around and looks at the one
sitting on top of the hill. It's a huge two-story mansion with white
marble columns and little patios under all the windows. Tie-died flags
line both sides of the sidewalk and a huge Grateful Dead banner hangs
between the marble columns.
"Thanks for the house, God. But, let me ask you a question. I get
this little two bedroom house with a faded banner and Jerry Garcia gets
a mansion with brand new Grateful Dead banners and flags flying all
over the place. Why is that?"
God looks at him seriously for a moment, then with a smile, God says, "That's not Jerry's house, it's mine!"