Buffett Buffet Top Ten: A Pirate Looks At 40 (#4)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86778)
United States
December 28, 2023 8:22am CST
What am I doing up at this hour? 
I’m meeting my niece for some trouble in about 45 minutes. I thought I should get this up before I have to ask for bail money. 
And so, for your dining and dancing pleasure, is the next song on my list of favorite songs by the late songsmith Jimmy Buffett.
#4: A Pirate Looks At 40
I’m not alone with this one, either. I believe @TheHorse lists this as his favorite Buffett song.
The beauty of this song, from the natural (“Mother, mother ocean I have heard you call, wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall”) to the personal (“I’m an over-40 victim of fate, life came too late”), Buffett explains the lure of certain lifestyles brilliantly.
And to think, he wrote this when he was all of 28, not 40.
A Pirate Looks At 40
Written by Jimmy Buffett
From A1A, 1974
I made enough money to buy Miami:
I’m meeting my niece for some trouble in about 45 minutes. I thought I should get this up before I have to ask for bail money. And so, for your dining and dancing pleasure, is the next song on my list of favorite songs by the late songsmith Jimmy Buffett.
#4: A Pirate Looks At 40
I’m not alone with this one, either. I believe @TheHorse lists this as his favorite Buffett song.
The beauty of this song, from the natural (“Mother, mother ocean I have heard you call, wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall”) to the personal (“I’m an over-40 victim of fate, life came too late”), Buffett explains the lure of certain lifestyles brilliantly.
And to think, he wrote this when he was all of 28, not 40.
A Pirate Looks At 40
Written by Jimmy Buffett
From A1A, 1974
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@FourWalls (86778)
• United States
28 Dec 23
I’ve heard “Behind Blue Eyes” three zillion times but I still love it.
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@FourWalls (86778)
• United States
29 Dec 23
Hope you’re having a quiet and peaceful day! 
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@LindaOHio (222623)
• United States
29 Dec 23
@FourWalls Almost all of my days are quiet and peaceful! lol
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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30 Dec 23
Ah, another Buffet classic with that unique story telling he does so well. 
Mood music for the soul, no catchy cheeseburgers or margaritas here, just a tale to enjoy listening to while mellowing out...
Now that's some modern-day pirate smuggling a different kind of treasure, lol.
Mood music for the soul, no catchy cheeseburgers or margaritas here, just a tale to enjoy listening to while mellowing out...
Now that's some modern-day pirate smuggling a different kind of treasure, lol.1 person likes this
@FourWalls (86778)
• United States
31 Dec 23
Definitely. Maybe that’s why the Jamaican police shot at his airplane…they took this song a little too literally!
Maybe that’s why the Jamaican police shot at his airplane…they took this song a little too literally!
@RasmaSandra (98072)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 Dec 23
This song brought me back the memories of one of my favorite comedy musical films a true silly one but never the less it had to do with pirates The Pirate Movies that came out in 1984 ten years after he penned this song
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@FourWalls (86778)
• United States
29 Dec 23
You see one pirate, you’ve seen ‘em all.
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