 A Margarita: the eponymous beverage "Margaritaville" is a 1977 song by Jimmy Buffett. The song was a huge hit when it was released and is still popular today. It topped the Billboard charts at No. 1 in the "Adult Contemporary" category and at No. 8 for "Pop Singles." This song is mostly responsible for giving Buffett the beach bum persona he has had since the song's release.
The song is more or less a narration of the singer's life for the past season. He sings about walking about in a drunken haze in a beach community. The eponymous "Margaritaville" is the mental state he exists in during this peroid, induced—predictably—from the perpetual imbibing of margaritas. The song begins with the singer going for a walk, but cutting his heel and returning home to ease his pain with his favorite alcoholic beverage. The singer says that some friends surmise that he is reeling from a failed romance, but the singer concludes, at the end of the song, that is not a victim of lost love, but of his own laziness.
The song's opening gives a vivid descriptive of the singer's lifestyle in the beach town of Key West:
- Nibblin' on sponge cake,
- Watchin' the sun bake,
- All of those tourists covered with oil.
- Strummin' my six-string,
- On my front porch swing,
- Smell those shrimp they're beginnin' to boil.
The song's chorus best summarizes the theme of the song:
- Wastin' away again in Margaritaville,
- Searchin' for my lost shaker of salt.
- Some people claim that there's a woman to blame,
- Now I think, Hell, it could be my fault.
See also: "Why Don't We Get Drunk", "Cheeseburger in Paradise"
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