03: Ringling, Ringling - Jimmy Buffett Info

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Living & Dying in ¾ Time is the fourth album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and the second major label album in Buffett's Don Gant-produced "Key West phase." It was initially released in February 1974 as Dunhill DS-50132 and later rereleased on Dunhill's successor labels ABC and MCA. It contains the song "Come Monday," his first Top 40 hit single.

Despite the title, there are no songs on the album in ¾ time signature however four tracks use 12/8 time, "Pencil Thin Mustache", "Brand New Country Star", "God's Own Drunk", and "West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown," with a repeating 17 bar pattern actually making the true time signature of this song's verses 51/8. Furthermore, the lyrics of "Nautical Wheelers" on Buffett's subsequent album, A1A, refer to "living & dying in ¾ time" and the song is also in 12/8 time signature.

In addition to "Come Monday," Living & Dying in ¾ Time contains "Pencil Thin Mustache" another Buffett concert favorite. The two songs appear on most of his live albums and greatest hits compilations.

The album contains two cover songs: "Ballad of Spider John" written and originally performed by Willis Alan Ramsey and "God's Own Drunk" by Lord Buckley. Buffett's version of "Ballad of Spider John" is missing some of the lyrics of the original although he has included these in concert renditions. "Livingston's Gone to Texas" is a remake of Buffett's own song that originally appeared on the 1971 High Cumberland Jubilee (although this album would not be released until 1976). The version on Living & Dying in ¾ Time is a slower tempo, more country-sounding presentation and is missing the penultimate verse of the original.

"West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown" is the first song that Buffett uses the word "f&ck." (The only other Buffett song that word is used in is "Overkill" from the 1996 album Banana Wind.) An original Canadian promotional release has "West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown God's Own Drunk Restricted - Not For Radio Play" printed on corner of the album cover.

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03: Ringling, Ringling

Living & Dying in 3/4 Time Released on February 5, 1974 by ABC Dunhill Records

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RINGLING, RINGLING

Ringling, Ringling
Slippin' away
Only forty people, livin' there today
Streets are dusty and the bank has been torn down
It's a dyin' little town

Church windows broken
That place ain't been used in years
Jail don't have a sheriff or a cell
And electric trains they run by maybe once or twice a month
Easin' it on down to Musselshell

Ringling, Ringling

Slippin' away
Only forty people livin' there today
`Cause the streets are dusty and the bank had been torn down
It's a dyin' little town

And across from the bar there's a pile of beer cans
Been there twenty-seven years
Imagine all the heart aches and tears
In twenty-seven years of beer

So we hopped back in the rental car
and we hit the cruise control
Pretty soon the town was out of sight
Tho we left behind a fat barmaid, a cowboy and a dog
Racin' for a Ringling Friday night

Ringling, Ringling
Your just slippin' away
I wonder how many people will be there a year from today
`Cause the streets are dusty and the bank has been torn down
It's a dyin' little town
It's a dyin' little town

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