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Riddles In the Sand, 1984
Written by Jimmy Buffett, Michael Utley, and Will Jennings
This is basically a one-joke song built around a title, but Buffett is too gifted a songwriter to leave it at that. He turns the pun into an easygoing, genuinely sweet love song, dreaming of escape: "I'm gonna show you what my love can do / Out on the ocean all alone with you / We'll find a desert island on an ancient chart." With steel drums doing most of the musical work, it's a bright little number that never aims higher than to make you smile, and succeeds.
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