A Pirate Looks at Forty
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| “A Pirate Looks at Forty” | |||||
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| Single by Jimmy Buffett from the album A1A |
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| A-side | "Presents to Send You" | ||||
| B-side | "A Pirate Looks at Forty" | ||||
| Released | February 1975 | ||||
| Format | 7" | ||||
| Recorded | Woodland Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee | ||||
| Genre | Country/Gulf and western | ||||
| Length | 3:57 | ||||
| Label | Dunhill D-15029 (U.S., 7") |
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| Writer(s) | Jimmy Buffett | ||||
| Producer | Don Gant | ||||
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"A Pirate Looks at Forty" is a song written and performed by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was first released on his 1974 album A1A and is the B-side of the single "Presents To Send You."
Buffett wrote the song about Phillips "Phil" Clark, a bartender at the Chart Room where Buffett first performed after his move to Key West, Florida.[1] The song contains the bittersweet confession of a modern-day pirate as he looks back on the first 40 years and his life and ponders his future:
Yes, I am a pirate
Two hundred years too late
The cannons don't thunder
There's nothing to plunder
I'm an over 40 victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late
For radio play, the song was shortened by deleting the fourth verse for the single release. The song is one of Buffett's more popular, and is part of "The Big 8" that he has played at almost all of his concerts, and always during the second set.[citation needed]
[edit] Cover versions
Jack Johnson has also been known to cover this song in many of his smaller concerts and Roger Creager, a prominent Texas Country performer, covers this song and it is featured on his live album Live Across Texas.
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Early Daze." at CoBO.org
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