V is for VAMPIRES, MUMMIES AND THE HOLY GHOST plus bonus song

Please note that the videos embedded with the songs were posted by some great Parrotheads on YouTube and not my creation.


I know many, many of you were expecting "Volcano" and I will put a video of that at the end, but if you haven't heard "Vampires, Mummies, and the Holy Ghost", you really need to, which is why it is my "V" for the day.  This great fun song is from the Fruitcakes  CD, which if you don't own it you should get it.

Jimmy is only afraid of vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost, nothing else scares him, lucky him.  I do like the verse about the "serial killer down the block" , he seemed so quiet and raised orchids, who knew.  It's a great fun song so sing along and enjoy your Wednesday.

For you purists, here is Volcano:

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Q is for QUIETLY MAKING NOISE

Please note that the videos embedded with the songs were posted by some great Parrotheads on YouTube and not my creation.


First off, don't forget to check out the amazing video for this song, actually I think he used the song to highlight the video of cats being drawn by what appears to be a computer program.  Good stuff!

Anyway, "Quietly Making Noise" (1994) is from the very lively Fruitcakes CD which includes "Fruitcakes" which is also a great song.

Naturally this one was chosen because it was the only Jimmy Buffett "Q" song that I could find, fortunately it's a good one.  Jimmy is once again singing about Paris which appears to be a place that he really loves and so there are many references to Oscar Wilde "died in bed, several floors above my head" and then goes on to mention going into the metro, meeting various people of different nationalities, and then "singers and writers and poets have flocked here for centuries, the city of light is built upon mountains of memories".

A reader did comment that he had seen Jimmy perform in Paris, did he do this song?
 

M is for MARGARITAVILLE (what else!)

Please note that the videos embedded with the songs were posted by some great Parrotheads on YouTube and not my creation


There was really no question what "M" would be, but for those new to Mr. Buffett, "Margaritaville" (1977) was the BIG hit for Jimmy and the one that led many of us to the rest of his music.  This song first appeared on the Changes in Lattitudes, Changes in Attitudes CD,

I first heard the song on the radio in 1977 when I was living on Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, CO, with my husband and  one year old daughter.  (see "Little Miss Magic").  I don't know why I remember this so well, but we lived in the shadow of Cheyenne Mountain and Pikes Peak and I swear I was looking at those mountains and was thinking how far away I was from my Atlantic Ocean roots and Jimmy brought me back there.  When did you first hear this?

I've posted the lyrics version this time in case this was your first time and in case you've been singing the words wrong for years and years.  A simple song that led to complex feelings for me and thousands of others, and that's what Jimmy's songs are all about.