To honor the recent passing of the great Jimmy Buffett I’ll be offering several tribute songs. Here’s my rough-and-ready attempt at “A Pirate Looks at Forty.” As always, thanks for listening and let’s raise a glass to JB this weekend. If you’re a Buffett fan, stay tuned. There are several more of his songs in the pipeline.

Songfacts: “Buffett was only 27 when this song was released, but it’s not about him. He wrote it about Phil Clark, one of the more colorful characters he met when he first came to Key West, Florida, in the early ’70s. Clark was a modern-day pirate, described in various accounts as a smuggler, a mercenary, a drug runner and an adventurer. Buffett got to know him, and wrote this song based on their conversations.”