{"id":675,"date":"2021-05-10T04:32:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T04:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/?p=675"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:16:21","slug":"margaritaville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/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

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[Verse] \u2013 \u2013 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> [C] Nibblin\u2019 on sponge cake, watchin\u2019 the sun bake <\/strong><\/span>all of those tourists covered with [G] oil.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 [G] Strummin\u2019 my six string, on my front porch swing.<\/strong><\/span> Smell those shrimp they\u2019re beginnin\u2019 to [C] boil\u00a0\u00a0 [C7]
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{ CHORUS } \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 <\/strong><\/span>[F] Wastin\u2019 [G] away again in [C] Margaritaville [C7], [F] <\/strong>searchin\u2019 for my [G] lost shaker of [C] salt\u00a0 [C7].<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 [F] Some people [G] claim that there\u2019s a [G] woman [F]\u00a0 to [G] blame,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>but I [C] know, it\u2019s nobody\u2019s fault<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse] \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 <\/strong><\/span>[C] Don\u2019t know the reason, I stayed here all season.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 Nothin\u2019 to show but this brand new [G] tattoo.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>[G] But it\u2019s a real beauty, a Mexican cutie.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>How it got here I haven\u2019t a [C] clue\u00a0\u00a0 [C7]
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{ CHORUS }\u00a0 <\/span>but I [C] think, hell it could be my fault<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse] \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 <\/strong><\/span>[C] I blew out my flip flop, stepped on a pop top.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>Cut my heel had to cruise on back [G] home.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>[G] But there\u2019s booze in the blender, and soon it will render <\/strong><\/span>that frozen concoction that helps me hang [C] on\u00a0 [C7]<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>but I [C] think, it is prob\u2019ly <\/strong>my fault
\n<\/strong><\/span>{ CHORUS }<\/span>\u00a0 but I [C] know, it\u2019s my own damn fault.
\n<\/strong><\/span>[Outro] \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 [<\/strong><\/span>D] [F] [G] [C]<\/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] \u2013 \u2013 \u2013\u00a0 [C] Nibblin\u2019 on sponge cake, watchin\u2019 the sun bake all of those tourists covered with [G] oil.\u00a0 [G] … 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":[24,25,126,13,116,117,275,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-4-chords","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-temp-hold","category-uke-juke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31417,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/31417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}