A Song I Used to Sing to Cassie

...when I was unemployed and driving to/from the kennel and seeing private jets at Van Nuys Airport.

I also used to sing it to Ally when we lived in Long Beach and she's hang out with me when I was working from home. In both cases, sort of a promise to our dogs that since they were keeping an eye on me, we'd make sure they were taken care of too.

It's a shame that Cassie won't get to see and spend her inheritance on steak and bacon, or to live in a dog house 10 feet round.



By: Jimmy Buffett
1973
I once knew a poet
Who lived before his time
He and his dog Spooner
Would listen while he'd rhyme
Words to make ya happy
Words to make you cry
Then one day the poet suddenly did die

But he left behind a closet

Filled with verse and rhyme
And through some strange transaction
One was printed in the Times
And everybody's searchin'
For the king of undergound
Well they found him down in Florida
With a tombstone for a crown

Everybody knows a line
From his book that cost four ninety-nine
I wonder if he knows he's doin'
Quite this fine

'Cause his books are all best sellers
And his poems were turned to song
Had his brother on a talk show
Though they never got along
And now he's called immortal
Yes he's even taught in school
They say he used his talents
A most proficient tool

But he left all of his royalties
To Spooner his ol' hound
Growin' old on steak and bacon
In a doghouse ten feet 'round
And everybody wonders
Did he really lose his mind
No he was just a poet who lived before his time
He was just a poet who lived before his time