The Hammock Papers: Jimmy Buffett, "The Captain and The Kid"

07 March 2021

Jimmy Buffett, "The Captain and The Kid"

I never used to miss the chance

To climb up on his knee

Listen to the many tales

Of life upon the sea

We'd go sailin' back on barkentines

An' talk of things he did

Tomorrow just a day away

For the captain and the kid

His world had gone from sailin' ships

To rakin' mom's backyard

He never could adjust to land

Although he tried so hard

We both were growin' older then

Wiser with our years

That's when I came to understand

The course his heart still steered

He died about a month ago

While winter filled the air

And though I cried, I was so proud

To love a man so rare

He's somewhere on the ocean now

A place he outta be

With one hand on the starboard rail

He's wavin' back at me

I never used to miss the chance

To climb up on his knee

Listen to his many tales

Of life upon the sea

We'd go sailin' back on barkentines

Talk of things he did

The world was just a day away

For the captain and the kid

For the captain

And this kid

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer – say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc. All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell."

MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."

DAN CAMPBELL