Opinion | Jimmy Buffett gave boyish dreams a voice

I sat alone in the pre-dawn hours Saturday listening to “A Pirate Looks at Forty,” a cleverly written poetic ode to lost youth and all the imagined things that might have been. Mr. Buffett’s songs appealed to both sexes, but I think it was men who were most drawn to his work, especially the early stuff. His tunes contained a certain romantic wistfulness and longing that, expressed in everyday conversation, revealed us to be the adolescents many of us still are at heart. But they spoke to us all the same, and we appreciated having someone like Mr. Buffett, who put our boyish dreams and fantasies to music and, thus, gave them voice.

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