Jimmy Buffett Tribute-A Pirate Looks at 40 Letterbox Hybrid
jwdorris: It appears that this one is gone again. Obviously, this location is not as good as I thought when I placed it here. I'm tired of replacing containers, stamps, and stamp pads so I'm going to archive this one and hopefully bring it back at another location.
Jimmy Buffett Tribute-A Pirate Looks at 40
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Recently I was trying to come up with a theme for a series of geocaches to place. I wanted something that I could maintain a theme which could provide some interesting cache containers. My wife suggested that I mingle two of the things that I really enjoy: The music of Jimmy Buffett and geocaching thus was born the Jimmy Buffett Tribute Geocache Series. I decided to place a series of caches that somehow reflect the title of one of Jimmy’s songs.
For a little history, Jimmy recorded his first album, a folk rock album titled Down to Earth in 1970. The next year he moved to Key West where he developed the “beach bum” persona that has served him so well. Jimmy has done concert tours every year since 1976 and I’ve managed to attend a couple of them and they have to rate as my favorite concert experiences. Jimmy is not only a songwriter and musician but he is a master story teller, just listen to the lyrics of the songs that he has written. In his own words, “A good story never goes out of style.” He is in my opinion, one of the best all-around entertainers in music.
My first experience with Jimmy’s music was when I was 13 years old. I heard his song The Great Filling Station Holdup on the radio and was hooked. Over the span of his career he has released 49 albums (I currently own most of them and will have them all before I’m done). Now whenever things get too crazy, I put on Jimmy’s music and escape to Margaritaville, the tropical paradise somewhere in your mind. So instead of the blenders, fire up those GPS receivers and join me for a Parrothead’s tour of my favorite Jimmy Buffet songs.
A Pirate Looks at 40 is probably my favorite Jimmy Buffett song. It is also always at or near the top of the most popular Jimmy Buffet songs and is one of the “Big 8” that is played at nearly every one of Jimmy’s concerts. This is a letterbox hybrid so please do not remove the stamp or ink pad. There is not a lot of traffic on this road and there is a good place to pull off the road nearby but please be careful pulling back onto the road. There is a ditch to walk through and some trees to navigate around so this would be difficult in a wheelchair but otherwise shouldn’t be too hard to access. This would be a great place to practice CITO.
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call,
Wanted to sail upon your waters
since I was three feet tall.
You've seen it all, you've seen it all.
Watch the men who rode you,
Switch from sails to steam.
And in your belly you hold the treasure
that few have ever seen, most of them dreams,
Most of them dreams.
Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.
The cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late.
I've done a bit of smugglin'
I've run my share of grass.
I made enough money to buy Miami,
But I pissed it away so fast,
Never meant to last, never meant to last.
I have been drunk now for over two weeks,
I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks,
But I've got to stop wishin',
Got to go fishin', I'm down to rock bottom again.
Just a few friends, just a few friends.
I go for younger women, lived with several awhile
And though I ran away, they'll come back one day.
And still could manage a smile
It just takes awhile, just takes awhile.
Mother, mother ocean, after all these years I've found
My occupational hazard being my occupations
just not around.
I feel like I've drowned,
Gonna head uptown.
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Ng gur onfr bs n ynetr gerr pbirerq jvgu angheny zngrevnyf.