L.A. Top Ten Songs: Come Monday (#10)

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And speaking of people who will have their patience rewarded today, we’ll kick off the top ten list of songs mentioning Los Angeles with a song that’ll hopefully pay NJ Chic back for the pain she had to endure earlier this month in reading the discussion about a Steely Dan song. Here we go with an old favorite. #10: Come Monday - Jimmy Buffett See you tomorrow. It was 1973, on a daytime-only AM country radio station called WELE in Daytona Beach, where I first heard Jimmy Buffett. They played “The Great Filling Station Hold-Up” regularly. The next year, they played this song as well. Yes, I listened to Jimmy Buffett PM (Pre-“Margaritaville”). This is one of those “everybody knows” Buffett songs, which means it may get too much airplay. It’s okay. It’s a sweet love song about the toll the life on the road takes on marriages. Some marriages don’t survive it. Buffett’s did. He and Jane had been married for 46 years at the time of his death. So enjoy it again, because he meant it. Come Monday Written by Jimmy Buffett Recorded by Jimmy Buffett From Living and Dying in 3/4 Time, 1974 L.A. LYRICS: I’ve spent four lonely days in the brown L.A. haze