{"id":675,"date":"2021-05-10T04:32:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T04:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=675"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:04:42","slug":"margaritaville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/margaritaville\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaritaville"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jimmy Buffett wrote this in 1976 for Elvis, but he died in 1977 before it was recorded. Imagine the difference if this had been an Elvis song!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

[Verse] – – –\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> [D] Nibblin’ on sponge cake, watchin’ the sun bake <\/strong><\/span>all of those tourists covered with [A] oil.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 [A] Strummin’ my six string, on my front porch swing.<\/strong><\/span> Smell those shrimp they’re beginnin’ to [D] boil\u00a0\u00a0 [D7]
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{ CHORUS } – – – <\/strong><\/span>[G] Wastin’ [A] away again in [D] Margaritaville [D7], [G] <\/strong>searchin’ for my [A] lost shaker of [D] salt\u00a0 [D7].<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 [G] Some people [A] claim that there’s a [A] woman [G]\u00a0 to [A] blame,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>but I [D] know, it’s nobody’s fault<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse] – – – <\/strong><\/span>[D] Don’t know the reason, I stayed here all season.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 Nothin’ to show but this brand new [A] tattoo.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>[A] But it’s a real beauty, a Mexican cutie.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>How it got here I haven’t a [D] clue\u00a0\u00a0 [D7]
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{ CHORUS }\u00a0 <\/span>but I [D] think, hell it could be my fault<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse] – – – <\/strong><\/span>[D] I blew out my flip flop, stepped on a pop top.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>Cut my heel had to cruise on back [A] home.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>[A] But there’s booze in the blender, and soon it will render <\/strong><\/span>that frozen concoction that helps me hang [D] on\u00a0 [D7]<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>but I [D] think, it is prob’ly <\/strong>my fault
\n<\/strong><\/span>{ CHORUS }<\/span>\u00a0 but I [D] know, it’s my own damn fault.
\n<\/strong><\/span>[Outro] – – – <\/strong><\/span>D G A D<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Buffett wrote this in 1976 for Elvis, but he died in 1977 before it was recorded. Imagine the difference if this had been an Elvis song! [Verse] – – –\u00a0 [D] Nibblin’ on sponge cake, watchin’ the sun bake all of those tourists covered with [A] oil.\u00a0 [A] Strummin’ … CLICK TO VIEW SONGMargaritaville<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,133,126,13,116,117,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-4-chords","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-uke-juke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27475,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/27475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}