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the song, that is . . .

I love it like a teenager loves their parents.
Still love ya, but I've heard enough of ya....

i guess i could say i've heard enough of it, but i still love it!!! Even in concert, i still love it!

Oh say can you see, by th- I mean- Nibblin on spongecake, watchin the sun bake...

It's the national anthem of Margaritaville, it'd be unpatriotic not to!

I used to think it was just the anthem but, I'm going through some break up stuff right now. The song has a whole new meaning to me.

Have to be honest . . . it's my bathroom break song at concerts.

tikitatas wrote:Have to be honest . . . it's my bathroom break song at concerts.

It's one of mine too, Cate.

tikitatas wrote:Have to be honest . . . it's my bathroom break song at concerts.

SMLCHNG wrote:It's one of mine too, Cate.

BLASPHEMY!!!

jonesbeach10 wrote:

tikitatas wrote:Have to be honest . . . it's my bathroom break song at concerts.

SMLCHNG wrote:It's one of mine too, Cate.

BLASPHEMY!!!

Hush.

Everytime I hear it I pretend as if it's my first time hearing it and it always hit's me, this is the best song ever!!!!strange as that sounds.

AMEN, MICHAEL!

How could anybody NOT love the National Anthem?

Wino you know wrote:AMEN, MICHAEL!

How could anybody NOT love the National Anthem?

or Cheeseburger in Paradise for that matter?!!!

sonofabeach wrote:Everytime I hear it I pretend as if it's my first time hearing it and it always hit's me, this is the best song ever!!!!strange as that sounds.

Same exact thing happens to me!! It's a musical masterpiece!! Better than any Bach or Beethoven I've listened to!!!

That this song has a life of it's own outside the Buffett realm by receiving airplay nearly as often as when it first debuted almost 30 years ago pretty much speaks for itself. It's that rarest of achievements for any artist, to have one of their pieces of work become such a timeless classic.

There's also the flip side of the coin others have mentioned. I've heard this song performed in a slow burn fashion where the emphasis was on the words, not the escapist mindset it's come to represent. I believe that to be another of Buffett's gifts as a tunesmith, the ability to take a sad song and make it better, yet another reason I believe "Margaritaville" continues to stand the test of time. Yeah, and it's fun to drink to.

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Lost Verse please!!!

HONESTLY... unless I'm AT a concert... I skip right over it in the many "collection" albums or the CILCIA album itself... I've heard it too many times in too many versions.... I'm kinda burned on it... so in hopes of trying not to resort to hating it... I avoid it at all cost until the shows themselves

I marked a simple "I like it"

Left Field ParrotHead wrote:I used to think it was just the anthem but, I'm going through some break up stuff right now. The song has a whole new meaning to me.

As many times as I heard it prior to my Divorce I never "got it"
untill after..

sonofabeach wrote:

Wino you know wrote:AMEN, MICHAEL!

How could anybody NOT love the National Anthem?

or Cheeseburger in Paradise for that matter?!!!

or voting REPUBLICAN for that matter

ragtopW wrote:

Left Field ParrotHead wrote:I used to think it was just the anthem but, I'm going through some break up stuff right now. The song has a whole new meaning to me.

As many times as I heard it prior to my Divorce I never "got it"
untill after..

Just looking for my lost shaker of salt. Some people claim there's a woman to blame, but I know. It's my own damn fault.