Parrotheads' Delight: "Banana Wind" Quiz

Answer: 2001

"I like to think I'll make it/To two thousand and one/Will the party be at my house/God I wonder who will come". Time has already told. Jimmy has lived in Key West, Florida, among other places.

Answer: Negril

"Then we landed in the water, just about my favorite thrill/When some a__h____ started firing as we taxied to Negril." Jimmy had to explain to the authorities that they were not a ganja plane. Hmm. Wonder what that is! Negril is at the western end of Jamaica, not far from Green Island and Little London. Jimmy's plane actually did "land" in Montego Bay, but he doesn't mention the name in the song.

Answer: i-i-yi-yi-yi-yi

They sing it several times. They sing some other things, too, but not the other choices I gave. Jimmy has lived in Palm Beach, Florida, among other places.

Answer: answer not given here

The answer is "the internet." So get off this computer right now and go do something worthwhile, like sleeping! Jimmy has lived in Mobile, Alabama, among other places.

Answer: Every Sunday at the orange grove stand

"It's the Bob Roberts society band/Playin' every Sunday at the orange grove stand/They don't play grunge and they don't play loud/It's the magic of the music that still draws a crowd." They play forties style, and that will never die. Jimmy has lived in Nashville, Tennessee, among other places.

Answer: the Himalayas, Milky Way-as

"I went to find the truth in the Himalayas/Bundled up half frozen munchin' Milky Way-as/Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot/When I asked if he was cold, he said, "I just think hot." It has been said that Uncle Jimmy is a distant cousin of multi-billionaire investment king Warren Buffett, but there seems to be no hard evidence of this.

He is not even said to be related to painter William Buffett.

Answer: cookies

"She's got a passion for cookies/A crew full of rookies/It's gonna be a hell of a blow." Jimmy was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on Christmas Day, 1946.

Answer: Mozart

"Socrates, hypotheses, the music of Mozart/I'm a cultural infidel comin' from the heart." Be that as it may, Jimmy attended Auburn University in Alabama, and finished his B.S. in History at the U of Southern Mississippi in 1969.

Answer: "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"

"Havin' fun is just smilin' through/Those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes." "Changes" is one of Jim's biggest all-time hits, one of the "Big 8" that must be played at all concerts. Jimmy's first album, "Down to Earth", came out in 1970. Hard to believe!

Answer: Havana, Cuba, 1921

"All the ships in the harbor were warmed by the sun/Twenty-fifth of November, 1921 . . . Every ship in Havana then hoisted away/All the pennants were flyin' on my dad's first birthday." Jim wrote this song in 1996, dedicated to his father, whose name was also James Buffett. Wonder if Jimmy was called Junior or Buddy when he was a kid. I checked all lyrics against the liner notes and by listening to the songs. Farewell, my fellow parrotheads! Hope you enjoyed my quiz. Who knows what album I'll throw at you next time, so keep listening! Mickey.