In the United States Margaritaville reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and went to number one on the Easy Listening chart, also peaking at #13 on the Hot Country Songs chart. Billboard ranked it number 14 on its 1977 Pop Singles year-end chart. It remains Buffett's highest charting solo single.
Bare bodkin is the salient point (no pun intended) of this line, so it gets the stresses. This creates a pyrrhic/spondee/iamb/iamb/iamb rhythm. Bodkin at the time meant a sharp instrument, much like an awl, used for punching holes in leather.
Unlike bear, bare can also be an adjective, and is often used to describe someone or something that is uncovered, or without the appropriate or usual contents. She padded in bare feet towards the door. Leaf fall had left the trees bare. It was a bare cell with just a mattress. Other meanings of the very versatile adjective bare are âwithout addition; basic and simpleâ, âonly just sufficientâ, or âsurprisingly small in number or amountâ. He outlined the bare bones of the story. They had the bare minimum of furniture. All you need to start is a bare Â£500.