Jimmy Buffett charmed audiences with his easygoing, calypso-like lyrics and fun storytelling.
Buffett struck a chord with people looking for escapism as they grew older but never grew up, thereported. Like him, they were “Wasted away again in Margaritaville,” and “looking for my lost shaker of salt.”
The 1974 song, from the “Living and Dying in 3/4 Time” album, is a heartfelt ballad about missing a loved one while wrestling with fame.Cheeseburger in Paradise Buffett laments about the old-time sailors whose diet of “warm beer and bread” could “raise the dead,” but it only reminds him of “a menu at a Holiday Inn.”
The title track from Buffett’s fifth album. The protagonist is a drug dealer, but a careful one. He makes some good money but is smart enough to get out of the business before he gets caught by the feds.“Fins,” from the “Volcano” album, is Buffett’s milder -- and less tragic -- version of “Looking for Mr. Goodbar.” A sweet girl from Cincinnati comes to an unnamed Florida city -- Key West, perhaps -- and suddenly finds herself confronted by “sharks” -- males on the prowl.
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