04: Brahma Fear - 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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04: Brahma Fear

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

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BRAHMA FEAR

I'd like to ride the rodeo
But I've got Brahma fear
So I'll just stick to airplanes
Gently pop my ears

Drink alot of whiskey
It gives me such a glow
It makes me quite immobile
Ah but it let's my feeling show

And I'm somewhere below the spotlight
Somewhere below the ground
You dig deep enough you might find me
Find me, and you've found my sound

Yes, I own a whaler boat
It slides across the sea
Some folks say I'm part of it
And I know it's part of me

And when I'm feelin' solitaire
It let's me be alone
And when I want to have a taste
It carries me back home

And I'm somewhere below the sunlight
Somewhere upon the sea
You dig deep enough you might find me
Find me, cause that's where I'll be

Yes, I drink alot of whiskey
It gives me such a glow
It makes me quite immobile
But it let's my feelin's show
Yes, it makes me quite immobile
Ah, but it let's my feelin's show

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