“The Captain and the Kid” was a 1970 Jimmy Buffett song from his debut album, which he wrote by himself. The lyrics honored his late grandfather, Captain James Delaney Buffett, who died in 1970 at the age of 82.
Although a record producer was interested in this song, he found it too depressing and wanted Buffett to change the ending to let the old man live. When speaking about the request with Jimmy Buffett Official, he said, “[The producer] said, ‘Maybe the old man doesn’t die in the end. Maybe you just kind of have a beer with him.’ And I went, ‘He did die.’ And I went, ‘No, I’m not changing it.’”
Buffett went on to explain the inspiration behind the song. “’The Captain and the Kid’ was written right after my grandfather died,” he said. “He was the inspiration for it. He was a sailor ship captain for a long, long time, and we grew up in that whole kind of environment. I was very close to him. I wrote this song after we went to his funeral.”
When asked how long it took him to come up with the lyrics for the song, he said, “I probably wrote it in a day. That’s the way I wrote back in those days. When you’re by yourself, you just kept going until you had one. When I wrote it, I remember I didn’t really change much about it. Because it was such an emotional and authentic experience for me that I knew it pretty well. And it came very quickly.”
According to his Jimmy Buffett Official interview, he performed the song less than ten times throughout his career. However, he recorded it multiple times, including it on multiple albums.
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Although this song isn’t one of his more well-known hits, many fans love it. As one Facebook user said, “I know most people are a fan of Jimmy’s happy and upbeat songs – but I absolutely adore his ballads.” Another said, “This song made me cry the first time I heard it over 30 years ago.”
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