my next guest uh it's a treat that he is here tonight in 1977 of course this man
put Margaritaville on the map and he also notoriously avoids cold weather so it's an
extra special occasion to have him here tonight ladies and Gentlemen please welcome Jimmy Buffett
nice to see you I really appreciate you uh showing up from wherever it was you
came uh Miami today Miami you do you don't like cold weather I mean who does I guess
people do don't they well I've spent a lot of time in the Museum of Modern TV movies
but you have you have a home in Colorado well and they're part of the year and then down in
Florida and uh between the two of them I try to stay out of cold weather in Colorado yeah uh you
lived in Key West for a while yeah for about seven years yeah and there so it's just I don't know the
bloodstand or too much garlic or something I don't know do you uh do you live on a boat not anymore I
uh it's down in the harbor where I can see it I went for a smaller boat and a house on the hill
I guess that's the sign of middle age that could be a song Too smaller boat in a house on there are
a lot of people imitating them these days now uh what was it like though when you were living on a
boat it was great except uh my captain was uh one of my best friends so when I was on the road in
exciting places like West Lafayette Indiana Times Beach Missouri on tour uh I'd be away and I'd go
back to the boat and after dealing with the band sorry boys but you know it's after eight or ten
people on the road I just sort of like to be quiet and I'd get back and I'd have a crew and a captain
that would give me the same kind of non-quiet time as the band would see that that kind of takes the
romance out of it knowing that you had a crew and a captain you probably have a butler and some sort
of foreign maid no just a road manager I cook for myself do you do are you able to Sail by yourself
no yeah yeah I mean I do really say there are a lot of people making sailing songs these days
that you know they look like they couldn't tie a knot in a hefty trash bag but I can do this wait a
minute was that some sort of backhanded reference it was no no not it's you no no I know that I my
records aren't doing that well but uh uh now let me let's talk about your drinking and Drug days
it could be current I don't know are you no they're not I'm Way Beyond the statute of
limitations so okay but you have a reputation as a guy who was relaxed a lot of the time yeah I knew
I shouldn't have done television no no no this is this is fun you're enjoying yourself I am okay can
I tell my mother it's not true or is it true it's not true well how did you get the the reputation I
don't know uh it's probably somebody that looked like me I have an alter ego that goes out Frank
Buffett so Frank gets in a lot of trouble and uh but I get blamed for it now what uh it's just
relaxing after the road yeah it's nothing serious no and you you appeared it through it you appear
to be healthy and like you said you did live through it so uh good for you I guess yeah yeah
still it's still like fun to visit occasionally equal time for Nancy Reagan last week yeah uh
now you were gonna uh hopefully you're gonna do two songs here tonight yeah I had a song that I
had asked if you would do and then I understand that the song that you were hoping to do first
has a special meaning to you so I'm going to let you decide which one you want to do now okay I'm
gonna do the the new one because it got me out of trouble I was on tour in Tahiti as and you work
some ugly places it's terrible oh my gosh but I'd run away and uh um I was I miss my wife our fifth
wedding anniversary in the opening of a place she was in and it's if you come from Pittsburgh and
say the plane's laid it's one thing but when you come from papier nobody's buying that no no so I
came back with a song and uh she's my worst critic always and she liked it so it got me off the hook
all right so good enough I I certainly understand your interest in doing that song for everybody
else no you're gonna you're gonna do it right here yes okay do it right here yeah is there anything
I need to know about what we're gonna hear you want me to introduce you I've already done that
yes man all right it's called distantly in love distantly in love this of course is Jimmy Buffett
the song that's written about his wife when he was goofing off in Tahiti thank you very much
pay phones are worrying as the crowd went roaring back
lovely dancers swaying to end Island lullaby beside the Southern Ocean taking stock over
what's to be writing you this letter that you probably never see but I can't help
ruled by inconsistencies not unique Just distantly in Love I tried to phone from
Paris thinking things could be arranged me and you would Rendezvous but I found your number changed
so I drove to Sun rainbow where the crazy painter dwells toast in our old photographs still up
there on the Shelf but now I can't help it be part of my own Antiquities not unique distance
your times in all your places I can't be the one to fill your blanks and into spaces
yeah now I heard it from a friend of ours I saw in Timber Bay you had a new lover who had stolen
you away that could be the reason that I never got in touch me present slight problems if he
loves you half as much as I who can't help but be ruled by my Antiquities not unique Justice
part of my own philosophies not unique just destined
very nice thank you thank you awfully nice thank you now
very nice very nice shirt now do we have do you mind doing the other one yeah this
is your request yeah if you don't mind this would be a real uh kick for me all right now
you can join the course no no I won't be singing along I'd just be here enjoying it
okay okay this is uh come Monday Monday okay and I and thank you in advance for doing this
okay that's very nice this is a sound that kept me from killing myself in the Howard
Johnson's in Marin County these stories are great that's a great story well it hit and
I paid the rent got my dog out of the pound and uh you really uh sad in a Howard Johnson
I was deathly depressed too I was in a Howard Johnson's under mount tamale Pius in Marin
County and living there playing in San Anselmo it was awful and I wrote this song and it hit
and the rest is history it has to do with the color of the roof I think of those places it
has the size of the rooms and the food next door as well he said that okay oh here we go
heading out to San Francisco for the Labor Day weekend show I got
my heart's purpose on I guess I never was meant for glitter rock and roll
and honey I didn't know that I'd be missing so but come Monday it'll be all right come Monday I'll
be holding you tight I spent four long days in a brown L.A Haze and I just watched back by my side
yes it's been quite a summer rental cars and Westbound trains and now you're off on vacation
some things are hard to explain yes it's I love your soul that's the reason we just
had to go but come Monday it'll be all right come Monday I'll be holding you
tight I spent four lonely days in a brown earliest and I just want you back by my side
and I can't help it honey you're that much part of me now
remember the night in Montana when we said there'd be no room for down
now I hope you're enjoying and seeing it I know it's pretty out there yeah we can
go hiking on Tuesday with you I would walk anywhere California is one a quiet thing
I just can't wait to see you again and come Monday it'll be all right come Monday I'll be
holding you tight I spent four longer days the brown Ellie Hayes and I just want you back by
my side I spent four lonely days in a brown Ellis and I just want you back by my side
thank you very much I appreciate that Jimmy thank you very much Jimmy Buffett
ladies and gentlemen uh we gotta go away for a commercial but we'll be right back