Simple Pleasures (narration) Lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Okay, this next song is really, really buried treasure 

in digging up all these lost songs for you to hear 

A couple of them were buried so deep that 

even I couldn't remember writing them, much less playing them 

Until Milton gave me some clues 

Once I heard this story, it did unlock my own buried treasure 

locked away deep somewhere in that way back machine part of my brain 

The unique thing about simple pleasures is 

that it really features Rick Hirsch on a lead acoustic solo 

It also is a song that got it's 

inspiration more from Fred Neil than Gordon Lightfoot 

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I'd been turned on to Fred Neil by Bob Cooke who included several 

of his songs in his sets in the Bayou Room days 

Candyman which became a Roy Orbison hit, Other side of this life, 

A little bit of rain, The dolphins 

Were all coffee house standards that came from his classic album 

Bleeker and McDougall and from Bob's repertoire to mine 

Then in the Summer of '69, the movie Midnight Cowboy came out 

and featured Harry Nielson's version of Everbody's Talkin' 

That became a radio hit 

As a solo performer and in every band I have played in since that time 

Everybody's Talking has been part of my go-to list 

I met Fred in Coconut Grove in 1971 when I went down to play in Miami 

for the first time and was living with 

Jerry Jeff but that's a whole other story, 

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Fred was a great inspiration and became a good friend 

We fished and played gigs together at the Flick in Coral Gables 

and on many dolphin project 

benefits in Coconut Grove in the early 70's 

I stayed in touch with him in my comings and goings from Key West 

and God knows where 

Until he kinda dropped out of sight just after the millenium 

Sadly he passed away alone on Summerland Key 

the list of Fred's proteges is long and loaded with famous names 

I'm simply proud to be one of the singers that spent time 

in the shadow of his great style 

So this little Simple Pleasure, goes out to Fred Neil