“Come Monday” by Jimmy Buffett

"Come Monday" first appeared on Living & Dying in ¾ Time, Jimmy Buffett's 1974 album, and it's a homesick love letter written on the road to the woman he would later marry. He wrote it on the way to a Labor Day weekend run in 1973, opening for Country Joe McDonald at the Lion's Share in San Anselmo, holed up in a Howard Johnson's in Mill Valley. Don Gant produced it, and the players keep it soft as a porch swing: Reggie Young's electric guitar, Doyle Grisham's pedal steel, Greg "Fingers" Taylor's harmonica, Michael Utley on keys.

It gave Buffett his first Top 40 single, peaking at No. 30 on the Hot 100 and No. 3 on the Easy Listening chart, and it stayed in "The Big 8", the handful of songs he played at almost every show.

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