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The now "lost verse" coming second sometimes with the words being "checking out sea food down by the shore" is hilarious! It's been great listening to the stuff from the mid 1970s and how his songs took shape.

Anyone know if that is the only difference in the song? He was singing the cocaine bit that early minus the screaming bit like on You Had To Be There.

Manana was coming along just fine in 1977 as well with some different words then - I'm hangin' out in the casino cruisin' the town singin' anybody here really wanna get down... nothing about Anita Bryant either.

as soon as we move on to Cane Garden Bay..

New album's old and I need some fresh tunes...

Don't try to describe the channel if you've never seen it...

...Especially if you've heard all the worlds to this song... (or something like that)

Funny how he was able to remember all the words to the new songs. Could Manana have been written for but not finished for CILCIA? Possibly!

Some interesting revelations into how the songs started.

I'm not sure if there are any other verses to Margaritaville, but there is the song "Meet me in Margaritaville" which was written much later. The lyric database doesnt say its ever been played in a concert, but I have a live version from somewhere in my itunes. it is used as some of the background music for the Mini Matinee DVD. Heres a link to the clip from the DVD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT0h6cwrKT0

I remember hearing a concert on RM some years back in which there was an alternate "lost verse" that began, "My favorite topic is life in the tropics." I'd love to know what the rest of that verse is. I've written my own version, but it'd be cool to know what Jimmy really sang.

Meet me in Margaritaville was played live in Greensboro in 2002. It was played after the girls did hot hot hot for the intro.
I have it on cd and in my Itunes.

Mplsfins wrote:Meet me in Margaritaville was played live in Greensboro in 2002. It was played after the girls did hot hot hot for the intro.
I have it on cd and in my Itunes.

Ok ya that must be where my version is from. I got it off jokelben, but I didn't know what show it was from.

Meet Me In Margaritaville? Ha ha. Just the actual song. MMIM - that's just...space filler for that video he put together.

A little off the Margaritaville topic, but still on the "Early Versions" part. Does anyone but me remember hearing Tin Cup Chalice with the lyric "fill it up with apple instead of "good red wine?" I remember it speaking to me back in the early Bubba days when I was still a fan of Annie Green Springs and Boone's farm and had yet to discover Bordeaux and Red Zins

I remember listening to a demo (?) of Tin Cup Chalice and hearing the line about apple wine instead of good red wine. I thought it was kind of interesting to hear an alternative version.

There are a number of alternate versions of a number of Jimmy's early songs:

Captain America
Ace
Bend A Little
Death Valley Lives
Livingston's Gone To Texas
High Cumberland Jubilee
Great Filling Station Holdup
Peanut Butter Conspiracy
Tin Cup Chalice
Lovely Lady
The Don't Dance Like Carmen No More
Kick It In Second Wind
Wonder Why You Ever Go Home
Saxophones
Come Monday (BBC Version)
Door Number Three
Woman Goin' Crazy On Caroline Street
Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
Manana

on the live (Tues, Thurs, Sat) cd, he says "Checkin' out chiquitas down by the shore"

and i found one of the early demos of Tin Cup with the apple wine line:
http://buffett.jokelben.us/Treasure%20B ... ion%29.mp3

He says chiquitas on You Had To Be There. He says it was recorded that way (the album version). Haven't heard enough live tunes to figure out just exactly when that was used and if it was before the recording of the album/song and/or if he stuck with it after the recording.

Yeah, in general, any of the songs. I used Margaritaville as the subject because that was the first one I was on about. And then came Manana. All of those would make a nice thread of its own with discussion, people who have early recordings, etc... a good historic bit!