Fair Winds, Jimmy……My Tribute to Jimmy Buffett
Oh my God……
Jimmy Buffett……?????
I cannot begin to describe how I feel opening up my news reports this morning. Well, actually, I can, as you will discover if you continue reading…..
Jimmy Buffett was the soundtrack of my life for five years living in the US Virgin Islands. You started to get a little tired of it -because the music was everywhere -but as you began to listen to the lyrics you realized- that he was actually describing the life that you were currently living.
Jimmy’s songs are stories set to music, and they told of a life lived among pirates, drunkards, poets and dreamers. Everything he talked about in those songs was really what it was actually like to live on a Caribbean island as a transplant. He captured it perfectly. If you listen to his songs and think they are about made up things…. they are not. Those things really happen every day down in those tiny beach bars and on those beat up sailboats- that people also use as homes.
For many, they listen to him because he was perfect as an escapist describing a life of people who gave up everything, jumped on a sailboat and moved to…
