{"id":675,"date":"2021-05-10T04:32:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T04:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/?p=675"},"modified":"2026-08-09T23:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:24:26","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

CHORDS ARE SLIGHTLY WRONG.\u00a0 GET PEN READY TO WRITE DOWN CHORDS<\/span><\/p>\n

[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! CHORDS ARE SLIGHTLY WRONG.\u00a0 GET PEN READY TO WRITE DOWN CHORDS [Verse] \u2013 \u2013 \u2013\u00a0 [C] Nibblin\u2019 on sponge cake, watchin\u2019 the sun … 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":[24,25,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-4-chords","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":6,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32803,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/32803"}],"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}]}}