Music Monday: “Tin Cup Chalice” by Jimmy Buffett and memories
Posted By RichC on August 5, 2024
It would be nice “to go back to the islands” … well maybe going back in time to when we took a trip down A1A (Florida highway and Jimmy Buffett’s 1974 album title) and drove down 
to Key West. 
I sort of want to do it again, although I suspect Key West is no longer the same as remembered. 😔
Brenda and I do still have a great memory when taking a 15th years anniversary trip to Key West. Listening to the late Jimmy Buffett reminisce (below) about driving with Jerry Jeff Walker down the bridges of A1A in an old Packard does take me back a bit.
Charlie (Kamikaze) Matthews and I took a trip to Florida over Christmas break in 1977 and then Brenda and I went in 1997. Back then, we were working in different cities during the week. She was in Cincinnati for her new job and I was in NE Ohio still running my business … so we flew from different cities and met in Key West.
We still have paintings to show for it (I need to take or look for more photos). I also noticed a photo of the musicians on Mallory Square in the YouTube video and the exact place where we watched for the green flash… and I could see our hotel in the background (photo above).
“Tin Cup Chalice” by Jimmy Buffett
[Verse 1]
I want to go back, to the islands
Where the shrimp boats are tied up to the piling
Give me oysters and beer
For dinner every day of the year
And I’ll feel fine, I’ll feel fine
[Chorus]
I want to be there
Want to go back down and lie beside the sea there
With a tin cup for a chalice, fill it up with good red wine
And I’m a chewin’ on a honeysuckle vine
[Verse 2]
Yeah now the sun goes sliding across the water
Sail boats they go searching for the breeze
Salt air it ain’t thin
It can stick right to your skin, and make you feel fine
Makes you feel fine
[Chorus]
I wanna be there
Wanna go back down and and get high by the sea there
With a tin cup for a chalice, fill it up with good red wine
And I’m a chewin’ on a honeysuckle vine
[Verse 3]
Yes and now you heard my strange proposal
So get that Packard up and let’s move
I wanna be there before the day
Tries to steal away and leave us behind
I’ve made up my mind
[Chorus]
And I wanna be there
I wanna go back down and die beside the sea there
With a tin cup for a chalice, fill it up with good red wine
And I’m a chewin’ on a honeysuckle vine
Yeah with a tin cup for a chalice, fill it up with red wine
And I’m a chewin’ on a honeysuckle vine
[Chorus]
And I wanna be there
I wanna go back down and die beside the sea there
With a tin cup for a chalice, fill it up with good red wine
And I’m a chewin’ on a honeysuckle vine
Yeah with a tin cup for a chalice, fill it up with red wine
And I’m a chewin’ on a honeysuckle vine
Added for posterity: A photo of Megan at the last Riverbend concert (Cincinnati).
And my retired/tossed a well used and loved Margaritaville Key West tee-shirt (MDB header above and in a 2022 photo) that I’ve worn as a beach shirt forever after purchasing it in Key West … when Brenda and I celebrated our 15th anniversary (I think???)
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