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.
Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  bald, barefaced(adj) with no effort to conceal. 2  bald, bald-headed, bald-pated(adj) lacking hair on all or most of the scalp. 3  bald, denuded, denudate(verb) without the natural or usual covering.  bald(verb) grow bald; lose hair on one's head.