During his appearance on Late Night with David Letterman in March of 1983, the legendary Jimmy Buffett graced the stage with his heartfelt acoustic renditions of “Distantly in Love” and “Come Monday.” Seated next to the affable host, Buffett shared a poignant anecdote about the latter song, which Letterman had requested he perform. With raw honesty, Buffett revealed, “This is ‘Come Monday’… it is a song that kept me from killing myself in the Howard Johnson’s in Marin County… well, it hit, and I paid the rent, got my dog out of the pound, and… I was deathly depressed too. I was in a Howard Johnson’s under Mount Tamalpais in Marin County and living there, playing in San Anselmo. It was awful, and I wrote this song, and it hit, and the rest is history.”
