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Happily Ever After…At least once in a while.
Suggested by Dahni Imaged by Zete Fetch (AKA) Chat GPT
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023) the late great Jimmy Buffett. In 1996 he released an album called Banana Wind. To me, this was his best work. I was not a Parrothead,🦜I was not into Fins up, 🦈 like many, but Jimmy was one of the greatest songwriter/storytellers, I have ever had the privilege of hearing. Very few albums by anyone, have all of the songs worth listening to. This one does. There is something on this album for everyone. James Taylor even plays and sings along with Jimmy on a song Buffett wrote about his father- “False Echoes (Havana 1921)”. It is so moving and stirring, I can feel the hair standing up on my arm, thinking about it after almost 30 years.
Jimmy Buffett was adept at capturing really catchy lines like Mental Floss, Cheeseburger in Paradise, Jamaica Mistaica, and likely his most famous, Margaritaville. He was the epitome of the son of the a son of a sailor. He had a School Boy Heart. Changes in latitude & Changes in Attitude, yes. Sometimes in life, it just gets no better than ‘Happily Ever After…At least Once In Awhile.
Banana Wind was titled after a real name for a real wind. The warm trade winds come up from the Caribbean all along the Atlantic coast up to Nova Scotia in Canada. It is called the Banana Wind because, truly, bananas do grow as far North as Nova Scotia.
One of my favorite songs on this album is called ‘Happily Ever After (Now and Then).’ The phrase itself is found in many of what I call those fairly-tall tales (fairytales).
For years, especially online, if it is someone’s birthday or a ‘Special’ day, I send a picture like the one above and the following, “Happily Ever After…At Least Once In Awhile.”
LIsten to the song below. As Paul Harvey always signed off from his longtime radio show he said, “Now you know the rest of the story.”
-Dahni
