A Pirate Looks at Forty - Jimmy Buffett - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Jimmy Buffett tried his hand at everything from casinos and retirement communities to record labels and restaurants, naming his famous chain, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, after his hit 1977 song "Margaritaville." The late, great everyman honed his boozy brand of island-centered country-rock during an illustrious yet often overlooked career in which he gained his own diehard fanbase, the Parrotheads. Recorded three years before "Margaritaville," "A Pirate Looks at Forty" is one of the shiny treasures to emerge from his musical wanderings, a wistful lament that embodies Jimmy Buffett's self-proclaimed "gulf and western" aesthetic with a nautical theme and a country sound. The song, one of the so-called "Big 8" set Jimmy Buffett used to religiously play at his concerts before his death on 1 September 2023, dramatises the life of a washed-out drug smuggler who finds himself contemplating his future after being "drunk now for over two weeks."