Margaritaville

Johnny's Lounge · Post by **Johnny's Lounge** » May 30, 2011 9:34 pm

I was listening to the different live versions of Margaritaville that was being done as far back as 1976. Do you suppose that the original studio version included the "not so lost" verse and was edited out for release or was it just dropped for the recording? He did the verse before & after the release.
Does anybody know what the story was? I suppose it has been told a million times but I don't know.

Staredge · Post by **Staredge** » May 30, 2011 9:55 pm

I can see it being dropped. Doesn't quite fit with the rest of the song. I just wish he'd start doing it in concert with just an acoustic. The original has a certain melancholy air to it that the live versions don't convey.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » May 30, 2011 10:15 pm

I wish he'd drop the "salt, salt, salt" BS, it adds nothing to the song.

Left Field ParrotHead · Post by **Left Field ParrotHead** » May 30, 2011 10:28 pm

LIPH wrote:I wish he'd drop the "salt, salt, salt" BS, it adds nothing to the song.

Amen...

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » May 30, 2011 10:58 pm

I would love to hear the Recorder

sonofabeach · Post by **sonofabeach** » May 30, 2011 11:11 pm

I'm betting the verse was never even recorded with the song. Jimmy has been known to stretch the truth.

finsup2k · Post by **finsup2k** » May 30, 2011 11:13 pm

It's a pretty good song. I bet it catches on, then the rent will never be a problem again.

conched · Post by **conched** » May 31, 2011 1:48 am

Maybe the song was too long for radio play so it was edited. I don't know whether the single was released before the album or not.

Or somebody just didn't like songs that long....just like they didn't like the grandfather dying in The Captain and the Kid.

Bfan53again · Post by **Bfan53again** » May 31, 2011 6:12 am

conched wrote:Maybe the song was too long for radio play so it was edited. I don't know whether the single was released before the album or not.

Or somebody just didn't like songs that long....just like they didn't like the grandfather dying in The Captain and the Kid.

Having been a DJ at my college radio station I'm guessing that if the "lost verse" was part of the original song, it was deleted to keep the song to an acceptable play length for commercial radio.......

No wonder why JB shunned commercial radio......or was commercial radio the one who shunned JB??????

ScarletB · Post by **ScarletB** » May 31, 2011 7:45 am

LIPH wrote:I wish he'd drop the "salt, salt, salt" BS, it adds nothing to the song.

The story I heard was that fans in the audience added the "Salt" chant along with "Hang on, hang on, hang on"

MacPhin · Post by **MacPhin** » May 31, 2011 9:06 am

I heard him say that it was cut due to the length of the song. Anyone who really knows me, knows that is my favorite verse and I go nuts when he does it. Of course it isn't quite as special since he seems to be adding it more often.

capndar · Post by **capndar** » May 31, 2011 11:09 am

"we got any tequilla drinkers out there?"

That lost verse sounds like an 'after the fact' addition to me...that said I like it

and as to the "salt, salt..."

Whether we like it or not, Buffett shows have been as much about audience participation as the music since the mid-late 1980's....kind of like going to a "Rocky Horror" movie in a theatre

cheers!

surfpirate · Post by **surfpirate** » May 31, 2011 11:35 am

Maybe it's time we *discovered* some new lost verses .....

Surfin' at sunrise,
Saltwater in my eyes
A surfpirate heart and the sea in my soul
(soul! soul! soul!)
Paddlin' my longboard thinking up new chords
Smellin' that seaspray
And I'll never grow old

See? It's easy ..... kinda like a Buffetty Haiku.

PeretHed66 · Post by **PeretHed66** » May 31, 2011 12:50 pm

Staredge wrote: I just wish he'd start doing it in concert with just an acoustic. The original has a certain melancholy air to it that the live versions don't convey.

Couldn't agree more. The live abomination it has become is painful to listen to; it's turned into a party anthem. Alan Jackson's version on "Under The Influence" is much closer to home. I think it blows away how JB performs it live today.

PeretHed66 · Post by **PeretHed66** » May 31, 2011 12:51 pm

LIPH wrote:I wish he'd drop the "salt, salt, salt" BS, it adds nothing to the song.

+1. See above.

sonofabeach · Post by **sonofabeach** » May 31, 2011 6:15 pm

surfpirate wrote:Maybe it's time we *discovered* some new lost verses .....

Surfin' at sunrise,
Saltwater in my eyes
A surfpirate heart and the sea in my soul
(soul! soul! soul!)
Paddlin' my longboard thinking up new chords
Smellin' that seaspray
And I'll never grow old

See? It's easy ..... kinda like a Buffetty Haiku.

I blew out my @$$hole, too much tabasco
$h!t my pants had to cruise on back home

Wastin' away again in Diarrheaville, searchin' for my Pepto Bismol (squirt squirt squirt!!!)
Some people claim that there's Taco Bell to blame
I just know.......that's the last time I freeball

msu#1 · Post by **msu#1** » June 2, 2011 11:02 pm

everyone knows that its not "salt, salt, salt"

its "salt salt, where's the f#$#ng salt"

just like the extra words that people put in Mony Mony

blackjack · Post by **blackjack** » June 3, 2011 10:02 am

msu#1 wrote:everyone knows that its not "salt, salt, salt"

its "salt salt, where's the f#$#ng salt"

just like the extra words that people put in Mony Mony

I sing "Where the F@#K is my salt, salt?" when the keets aren't around of course.

pair8head · Post by **pair8head** » June 3, 2011 10:35 am

For a while up here in the Northwest people would chant

"Where's the Salt, Where's the G** Damn Salt?"

FunkHouse9 · Post by **FunkHouse9** » June 3, 2011 10:54 am

Staredge wrote:I can see it being dropped. Doesn't quite fit with the rest of the song. I just wish he'd start doing it in concert with just an acoustic. The original has a certain melancholy air to it that the live versions don't convey.

I would love that!

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