Buffett Buffet Top Ten: If I Could Just Get It on Paper (#7)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86778)
United States
December 25, 2023 10:52am CST
Today, December 25, would have been Jimmy Buffett’s 77th birthday. 
But this month is celebrating the music he gave us during his life. As you open your presents and celebrate the joy of the season, here’s a gift of music for you.
#7: If I Could Just Get It on Paper
I quote Buffett a lot. I refer to him as a “poet and philosopher,” because he really was. That’s why you find all these “deep catalog” and “non-hit” songs on this list: there was so much more to his music than cheeseburgers with lettuce and tomato, Heinz 57 and French fried potatoes. Consider this line:
Life and ink, they run out at the same time
Or so said my old friend the squid
That’s superficially funny if you think about the aquatic thing and its ink. Thinking of “squid” as a nickname for Navy personnel, however, it becomes a lot deeper….and truer.
Buffett’s life and ink ran out at the same time, but oh, the music he left us.
If I Could Just Get It on Paper
Written by Jimmy Buffett
From Somewhere Over China, 1982
Time alone seemed to work well for Faulkner:
But this month is celebrating the music he gave us during his life. As you open your presents and celebrate the joy of the season, here’s a gift of music for you.
#7: If I Could Just Get It on Paper
I quote Buffett a lot. I refer to him as a “poet and philosopher,” because he really was. That’s why you find all these “deep catalog” and “non-hit” songs on this list: there was so much more to his music than cheeseburgers with lettuce and tomato, Heinz 57 and French fried potatoes. Consider this line:
Life and ink, they run out at the same time
Or so said my old friend the squid
That’s superficially funny if you think about the aquatic thing and its ink. Thinking of “squid” as a nickname for Navy personnel, however, it becomes a lot deeper….and truer.
Buffett’s life and ink ran out at the same time, but oh, the music he left us.
If I Could Just Get It on Paper
Written by Jimmy Buffett
From Somewhere Over China, 1982
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@FourWalls (86778)
• United States
25 Dec 23
And to you, my dear. Glad you’re back on myLot for the winter! 
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@RasmaSandra (98072)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
25 Dec 23
Yep, yep, yep and I for one am always trying to get something on paper but wither the pen runs out of ink or the pencil lead breaks 
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@FourWalls (86778)
• United States
25 Dec 23
I still prefer the “feeling” of writing something down as opposed to typing it on the computer.
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@RasmaSandra (98072)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
25 Dec 23
@FourWalls oh, I know it I am surrounded by papers and notebooks and always write down what I do every day and what I post by putting pen to paper,
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@FourWalls (86778)
• United States
26 Dec 23
I enjoy the relaxing vibe he had in his music.
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@FourWalls (86778)
• United States
26 Dec 23
Don’t you have some wrapping paper to toss in the trash?
I hope you had a blessed Christmas!
I hope you had a blessed Christmas! 1 person likes this
@LindaOHio (222623)
• United States
26 Dec 23
Maybe if I lived in the Keys I would become a Parrothead. Have a great day.
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@FourWalls (86778)
• United States
26 Dec 23
Nah, either you like the music or you don’t. I didn’t like Hawaiian music because I lived there. 
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@FourWalls (86778)
• United States
26 Dec 23
Glad you liked it. Hope you’ve had a good holiday!
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