Just a girl who loves Jimmy Buffett and wants to share his music, stories and lifestyle with the world!
Of the many aspects of Jimmy’s song writing, one of the things I appreciate most is his sense of humor. It’s there in all his songs, but some of them seem more overt in that sense than others. This is one of those…
I dare you not to like this song. I. Dare. You. Fins up! Fins to the left… Fins to the right…
This is one of those songs that speaks for itself. It has a charm that completely carries you away with the lyrics, and you are left feeling like you had a wild weekend that will take at least a week to recover from, and you enjoyed every darn minute of it!
Jimmy was a storyteller, and he was great at it. Some songs were based on stories he was told, some on things he experienced, some on things he imagined. I think Cowboy In The Jungle is a bit of all three of those things. As I have gotten a little older, I have connected with this song a little more each day. To me, the lesson here is roll with the punches, trust your intuition, and make the best of “it” that you can.
Dancing. Singing. Laughing. These are all things that help lighten our spirit and bring us joy. Joy is something I never really tried to define before because I think people just know it and understand it and feel it. But the textbook definition is “a feeling of great pleasure and happiness”, “a state of happiness or felicity”, and “a cause of delight”; and joy is something we should all be lucky enough to find in our lives.
Jimmy had a keen sense of humor and seemed to enjoy puns and plays on words, as we can see with him titling an album White Sport Coat and A Pink Crustacean, a play on words with the Marty Robbins song White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation, and Last Mango in Paris is no exception.
Livingston is a city in southwestern Montana, in Park County, and is surrounded by gorgeous vistas of mountains and rolling foothills. Its most recent population is around 8300, which might not seem like much, but that makes it a city by Montana standards. It lies along the upper Yellowstone River and is considered the northern gateway to Yellowstone Park…
Landfall is defined as an arrival at land after a sea or air voyage. Or in the case of hurricanes and tropical storms, as the intersection of the eye of the storm with the coastline. For the most part, storms lose some of their vigor once they have made landfall, but that isn’t always the case. I think Jimmy’s song version can be seen to include a little bit of all of the above, or like many of his songs, have the ability to change in meaning depending on the perspective and mood of the listener.
Fruitcakes! It’s an album title, a song title and a badge of honor! In an earlier post I mentioned that this album was my first new release that I purchased as a Parrothead. In the previous year, I had first acquired the greatest hit’s CD, Songs You Know By Heart, and several others which had previously been released. But Fruitcakes, well I knew it was going to be released, and I waited for it eagerly. And that beautiful CD was worth every penny that I spent on it…
Ah, this song! It is a bit of a tender anthem for Parrotheads everywhere, especially the ones who have ripened past forty, or fifty, or who are even more ripe. And probably for those who are still far, far away from one of those milestones that life hands us. I mean, I loved this song long before I had even crossed the meridian into my twenties.