1976 Songs: Havana Daydreamin’
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (83721)
United States
March 9, 2026 10:44am CST
Howdy and hello! First, a Storm Center 60 update for our myLotters in Illinois, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Indiana: watch the weather the next couple of days. And now, back to our music. This one is fifty years old now. That’s hard to believe for me…but then my bones creak and remind me that it’s true. 
Havana Daydreamin’ - Jimmy Buffett
I was just sitting here, listening to the song play while I was prepping the discussion. I got lost in the storyline. It’s a reminder of what a great songwriter Jimmy Buffett was.
The descriptions present Havana, the one that Hemingway loved and knew. The beauty (“the water so green and the air was so clean”), the smuggling (“sailing on a midnight boat, there were no questions asked”), and those coveted Cuban cigars (“ceiling fan stirs the air, cigar smoke does swirl”).
That’s what I love about music. I’ve never been to Cuba (I’ve been 90s miles away, though, on a sunset cruise in Key West), but Buffett took me there with this song.
Havana Daydreamin’
Written by Jimmy Buffett
Recorded by Jimmy Buffett
From Havana Daydreamin’, 1976
Spillin’ wine and sharin’ good time:
Havana Daydreamin’ - Jimmy Buffett
I was just sitting here, listening to the song play while I was prepping the discussion. I got lost in the storyline. It’s a reminder of what a great songwriter Jimmy Buffett was.
The descriptions present Havana, the one that Hemingway loved and knew. The beauty (“the water so green and the air was so clean”), the smuggling (“sailing on a midnight boat, there were no questions asked”), and those coveted Cuban cigars (“ceiling fan stirs the air, cigar smoke does swirl”).
That’s what I love about music. I’ve never been to Cuba (I’ve been 90s miles away, though, on a sunset cruise in Key West), but Buffett took me there with this song.
Havana Daydreamin’
Written by Jimmy Buffett
Recorded by Jimmy Buffett
From Havana Daydreamin’, 1976
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@rebelann (116306)
• El Paso, Texas
3m
All I really know about Cuba is that it affiliated itself with Russia back in the early 60s. I'z just so up on stuff ain't I
Yeah, right 
Yeah, right @FourWalls (83721)
• United States
1h
It seems like it’s always had an air of mystery about it. There’s that line in Godfather II where Hyman Roth tells Michael (set in 1958), “This country’s had rebels for the last 50 years. It’s in their blood.”
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@BarBaraPrz (51476)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
1h
Yup, love me some Jimmy.
When I lived in Hamilton, I went past a place where it was obviously inhabited by Parrot Heads... and parrots. 
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@FourWalls (83721)
• United States
1h
His music could always take you someplace warm, even in cold Ontario winters.
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@Marilynda1225 (89080)
• United States
1h
I don't need to go back 50 years for my bones to creak
Jimmy Buffett 
Jimmy Buffett 1 person likes this
@FourWalls (83721)
• United States
1h
Oh, I know. Listening to albums I bought in the 70s just reminds me of why my bones are creaking.
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