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<h1>A Pirate Looks at Forty</h1>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pirate_Looks_at_Forty#mw-head" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jump to navigation</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pirate_Looks_at_Forty#searchInput" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jump to search</a>"A Pirate Looks at Forty"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_(music)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Single</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Buffett" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jimmy Buffett </a>from the album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1A_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A1A</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-side_and_B-side" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A-side</a>"A Pirate Looks at Forty"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-side_and_B-side" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">B-side</a>"Presents to Send You"ReleasedFebruary 1975RecordedWoodland Sound Studio, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nashville, Tennessee</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_genre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Genre</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Country</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pirate_Looks_at_Forty#cite_note-Gaillard2012-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[1]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Buffett#Musical_style" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gulf and Western</a>Length3:57<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_label" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Label</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhill_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dunhill</a>D-15029 (US, 7")<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songwriter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Songwriter(s)</a>Jimmy Buffett<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_producer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Producer(s)</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Gant" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Don Gant</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Buffett" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jimmy Buffett</a> singles chronology "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil_Thin_Mustache" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pencil Thin Mustache</a>"(1974) "A Pirate Looks at Forty"(1975) "Door Number Three" "A Pirate Looks at Forty" is a song written and performed by American popular music singer-songwriter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Buffett" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jimmy Buffett</a>. It was first released on his 1974 album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1A_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A1A</a> and "Presents to Send You" is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-side" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">B-side</a> of the single.Buffett wrote the song about Phillip Clark, at the Chart Room where Buffett first performed after his move to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_West,_Florida" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Key West, Florida</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pirate_Looks_at_Forty#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> The song contains the bittersweet confession of a modern-day, washed-up drug smuggler as he looks back on the first 40 years of his life, expresses lament that his preferred vocation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">piracy</a> on the high seas was long gone by the time he was born, and ponders his future.For radio play, the song was shortened by deleting the fourth verse for the single release. The song is one of Buffett's more popular, and is part of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Buffett#"The_Big_8"_and_standard_songs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Big 8</a>" that he has played at almost all of his concerts, and always during the second set.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pirate_Looks_at_Forty#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[3]</a><h2>Contents</h2><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pirate_Looks_at_Forty#Chart_performance" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1 Chart performance</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pirate_Looks_at_Forty#Cover_versions" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2 Cover versions</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pirate_Looks_at_Forty#Notes_and_references" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">3 Notes and references</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pirate_Looks_at_Forty#External_links" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">4 External links</a></li></ul><h2>Chart performance</h2>Chart (1974) Peak<h2>position U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 101 Cover versions</h2><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McNabb" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian McNabb</a> included a cover on his CD single "I'm Game" in 1993 which was taken from his solo album "Truth and Beauty".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_(musician)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jack Johnson</a> has been known to cover this song in many of his smaller concerts. It was officially released on the soundtrack to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_September_Sessions" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The September Sessions</a> in 2002.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pirate_Looks_at_Forty#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Creager" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roger Creager</a>, a prominent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Country" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Texas Country</a> performer, covers this song as well and is featured on his live album Live Across Texas.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bob Dylan</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Baez" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joan Baez</a> performed the song during their 1982 reunion performance at the Peace Sunday rally in Pasadena, California.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dave Matthews</a> alongside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_(musician)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jack Johnson</a> performed the song at Kokua Benefit Concert at the Waikiki Shell in Honolulu in 2008.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick_Figure" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stick Figure</a> performed the song live several times in 2019, and a recorded version is expected to be released on their 2019 album "World on Fire.”