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Jimmy Buffett — Boat Drinks
Album: Volcano
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Released: 1979
Length: 2:34
Plays (last 30 days): 0
Boat drinks.
Boys in the band ordered boat drinks.
Visitors just scored on the home rink.
Everything seems to be wrong.

Lately, newspaper mentioned cheap airfare.
I've got to fly to Saint Somewhere.
I'm close to bodily harm.

Twenty degress and the hockey game's on.
Nobody cares; they are way too far gone,
screamin' "Boat drinks,"
somethin' to keep them all warm.

This morning,
I shot six holes in my freezer.
I think I got cabin fever.
Somebody sound the alarm.

I'd like to go where the pace or life's slow.
Could you beam me somewhere, Mister Scott?
Any old place here on Earth or in space.
You pick the century and I'll pick the spot.

Oh I know (I know),
I should be leaving this climate.
I got a verse but can't rhyme it.
I gotta go where it's warm.

Boat drinks.
Waitress, I need two more boat drinks.
Then I'm headin south 'fore my dream shrinks.
I gotta go where it's warm. (I gotta go where it's warm.)
I gotta go where it's warm. (I gotta go where it's warm.)
I gotta go where it's WARM!

I gotta go where there ain't any snow,
where there ain't any blow, 'cause my fin sinks so low.
I gotta go where it's warm.
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LONG LIVE PARROT HEADS....{#Cheers}  {#Bananasplit}
Thanks for some JB on RP!
This is happy music....every{#Dancingbanana}body loves Buffet at a party!
Love it Bill, thanks for playing Jimmy :-)
Jimmy Buffet = patron saint of drunks
I used to think I didn't like Jimmy Buffet. Then I realized I just didn't like Jimmy Buffet fans.  

Great song.   

"This morning / I shot six holes in my freezer / I think I got cabin fever."

Brilliant. 
My Gosh! Talk about variety tonight Bill! CraAaZy!!!!

I've like Jimmy Buffett ever since I walked into a bar way back when and heard Pencil Thin Moustache being played.
 
 burdell wrote:
Hmmm, seems to be quite the polarizing artist.

Ask yourself why you listen to music. To appreciate craft, song construction and production value? Or to have the music generate an emotional response in you? While I appreciate the former, for me it is primarily the latter. And that's why I love Jimmy Buffett. He takes me to the same place every time. Somewhere other than this damn cubicle.

 
Amen, brother.  {#Yes}
 Dahlia_Gumbo wrote:

He's written several that are very touching. Always welcome! Always glad to hear a little Jimmy Buffett! 
 

Agreed.  "In The Shelter" is one song that comes to mind.
Pirate Looks at 40 (A1A) is a really good song.

For the rest of JB's work . . . . . meh
 sbegf wrote:

I think this covers my sentiment exactly, with the exception I am not sure I even half like any of his songs....my neighbor mindlessly and loudly plays buffett over and over at all of his summer parties, it is painful to say the least.
 
no
...seriously - I would consider moving.
I think you have to be drunk to truly appreciate a Jimmy Buffet tune.  But when you are...
it's awesome!
Abandon ship! Abandon ship!
 sirdroseph wrote:

He only has a couple of tunes I half like and this is not one of them, but I am going to be kind here, I actually don't hate him. There how is that for kindness?!{#Lol}

 
I think this covers my sentiment exactly, with the exception I am not sure I even half like any of his songs....my neighbor mindlessly and loudly plays buffett over and over at all of his summer parties, it is painful to say the least.
Kickass! In all the years I've been subscribed to RP, I don't think I've ever heard a Buffet song, and today's my 40th birthday — thanks Bill!!
Jimmy Buffet is a case study in branding. He is used as a teaching resource for his success off of one hit song.

He's written several that are very touching. Always welcome! Always glad to hear a little Jimmy Buffett! 
 aelfheld wrote:
 fitzworld wrote:
How did someone with so little talent make a fortune singing so many douchy songs??

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." — H.L. Mencken
 
Yeah, but Mencken was such a smug prick. 


I'm curious, about 21 songs of Jimmy Buffett available in RP library, the song "Boat Drinks", the only song that survived until today, last play: Jun 27, 2012 - 05:06, it is still curious, when we see here, every day, another songs perfectly dispensable, and much lower artistic quality, which, stubbornly, are played. Things that have to do with the "promotion" of radios, I think. Contradictions. James William "Jimmy" Buffett, 65 years old, with an active career since 1965, singer-songwriter, film producer, businessman, and author, is worthy of more attention.


He only has a couple of tunes I half like and this is not one of them, but I am going to be kind here, I actually don't hate him. There how is that for kindness?!{#Lol}


 fitzworld wrote:
How did someone with so little talent make a fortune singing so many douchy songs??

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." — H.L. Mencken

Jimmy Buffett is all too rare on RP.  Glad to hear this celebration of cabin fever in Montana in the dead of winter, as experienced by a Gulf Shores boy.


This is why I love RP.  Surprised to hear JB here, but I am not complaining.  great tune!
How did someone with so little talent make a fortune singing so many douchy songs??

Does he have any songs where he *doesn't* sing about drinking? {#Lol}


 fitzworld wrote:
I've never understood how anyone can like Jimmy Buffett. He's an awful singer and his songs are for drunks in the South who have no taste!
 
Exactly why I like him!  

And I'm not from the south.. and I have taste and he just sings songs that mean something to me... maybe you are perfect.. but most of us aren't...and those song make perfect sense to some of us... 
yay for parrotheads!
I've never understood how anyone can like Jimmy Buffett. He's an awful singer and his songs are for drunks in the South who have no taste!
A great old tune to start the day. Thank you, thank you.
Hmmm, seems to be quite the polarizing artist.

Ask yourself why you listen to music. To appreciate craft, song construction and production value? Or to have the music generate an emotional response in you? While I appreciate the former, for me it is primarily the latter. And that's why I love Jimmy Buffett. He takes me to the same place every time. Somewhere other than this damn cubicle.
A little Buffett goes a long way. That said, nice way to open the day - got a big smile on my face right now.

i get it.  Buffett is cool and I groove on some of his stuff.  But this song needs to be buried in the sand
A nice dust off of a long unplayed track by an very under played artist here.

Who says we can't enjoy the beach and all that goes with it, including Jimmy ?
 tdawg wrote:
There are few artists(?) I detest more than Jimmy Buffett. His whole scene, with its forced fun atmosphere, is so contrived and banal that I get seasick just hearing his voice.

I don't think there is anything forced about Jimmy's lifestyle.

It's amazing how this guy has made a career out of releasing the same song over and over again.
At last! The happy alcoholic set on RP!
Ahh....still causes an uncontrollable urge to run south towards the coast....thanks RP!
My god, my god, I can\'t believe I am hearing this on RP! RP, how could you? -cries quietly in background- I feel so hurt...so betrayed...so disappointed. Please, please don\'t do this to me ever again. No more Jimmy Buffett, I\'m begging you!
\"I shot six holes in my freezer\" ;)
Originally Posted by tdawg: There are few artists(?) I detest more than Jimmy Buffett. His whole scene, with its forced fun atmosphere, is so contrived and banal that I get seasick just hearing his voice.
Um, forced? I have no problem grooving to Jimmy. You just gotta appreciate it for what it is...pure escapism. I love it. Keep it up.
I have to be really drunk to like the majority of the Buffett catalogue. Not sure what that means exactly...just an observation, I guess.
There are few artists(?) I detest more than Jimmy Buffett. His whole scene, with its forced fun atmosphere, is so contrived and banal that I get seasick just hearing his voice.
Love it! Need more Buffett!!
Buffet = GOD! All I need is some salt!!!
More Buffett!!!! Please, please, please.
OK, finally something non-depressing, quite the opposite in fact! A great song for a cold winter's day. Thanks!
I always like hearing a little Buffett in the middle of winter.
The song isn\'t too bad. But I\'ve always been of the opinion that if you\'ve heard one Jimmy Buffett song, you\'ve heard them all. His songs are homogeneous.
As I once told a friend \"Jimmy Buffet grates on my nerves like George Bush\" (the former president). This was about the worst insult I could think of. It still holds.
FINALLY!! SOME JB!!! This is why I continue to be pleasantly surprised by RP!!THANKS BILL!! (Plus, \'Boat Drinks\' is a good one!)
Wow. I have been listening to RP for about a year now, and I have been wondering how a place like Paradise could neglect Jimmy Buffett. Glad to hear it and I hope we hear more as the summer gets under way.
No squawk from me. Parrotheads are people too.