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Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
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Tabbed by:Jaime
Email:RedneckFromHell283@yahoo.com
Tuning:Acoustic Guitar at Regular Tuning.
This tab is done on one line only, so it's perfect for beginners. It can be played on
"A" string or "D" string; "A" string is good for singing the Margaritaville while playing,
string is a higher pitch therefore harder to hear your voice while playing.
Intro
e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|7-7-7-5-7--7-7-7-5-7--9-9-9-7-5-0--|
E|-----------------------------------|
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
All Verses
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-7-7-5-7---7-7-5-4---7-7-7-9-7-7-7-5-4/7-------5-5-5-4-5---5-5-5-4-5---7-7-7-9-7-7-7-5-4-0--|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Chorus
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-9-9-7-7-5-5\4/5\4/5\4-0-----9-9-9-7--7-7-9-7-4-----9-9-9-11-9-9-11-12~-7-4-----5-5-5-4-2~~-----4-4-4-2-0--|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
(Verse)
(Chorus)
Solo
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-5/7-7-7-5-7-----5/7-7-7-5-4-----5/7-7-7-9-7-7-7-5-4-4/7-----9-7-9-7-9-7-7-9-11-12-7-4-----5-5-5-4-2-----4-4-4-2-0--|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
(Verse)
(Chorus)
Add to Last Chorus
e|--------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------|
A|---9-9-9-11-9-9-11-12~-7-4-----5-5-5-4-2-----4-4-4-2-0--|
E|--------------------------------------------------------|
(Intro)
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
=============================================================================== Again, I
this song on an acoustic guitar, and it can be played on either the "A" string or the
string, whichever you prefer. Any questions e-mail me at RedneckFromHell283@yahoo.com. Have Fun!
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Buck Wanna Be |
#1 by Buck Naked at Sep 27, 2007 at 4:56 PM EST |
| Ahh, although you all think you know so much about this song, you do not. I see one person here who knows what jimmy was writing about and you all ridiculed this person. COCAINE is what its about. Jimmy and the band used to drink margaritas on stage and when pretending to put salt on their fingers to lick with the drink they were actually shaking a line of coke out of a salt shaker. One night they left the shaker out and a waitress took it and put it on one of the tables in the club. So they had to search for the lost shaker of salt and the waitress, a woman was to blame, but in reality it was the bands fault for leaving the shaker out. So, now you know what the songs about. Too bad for all you beach loving hippes that were so insulted when someone tried to tell you what the song was about. | |
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Jess Wanna Be |
#2 by Jess at Sep 27, 2007 at 9:01 PM EST |
| My best friends' dad was trying to tell me and her that this song was about cocaine, and he was trying to explain it to us, but I just don't see it. Does anyone know anything about that?? | |
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colin Average |
#3 by colin gardiner at Sep 27, 2007 at 9:42 PM EST |
| Hobson27, I don't care if that was the inspiration for the song - some weird inside joke regarding cocaine - I would NEVER want to imagine that cocaine was the inspiration behind this song. Uggh... No, it's about a vacation. In your mind, or in a warm climate as suggested by things in this song, like flip-flops. What do flip-flops have to do with losing a salt shaker filled with cocaine? Coke is a shitty thing to write a song about anyways. Maybe he wrote this song with an INTENDED DOUBLE MEANING, but to be honest, I wish I never heard the cocaine story. That will ruin the song next time I hear it if I think about it. | |
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Lenny Judd (Pap Wanna Be |
#4 by Lenny Judd (Papa Smurf) at Sep 28, 2007 at 7:21 AM EST |
| I love this song, such a summer, relaxing, happy tune to it. Everytime i hear it, it brings me back to playing football on the beach at my uncles house in Cape May, Nj. | |
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Jared Wanna Be |
#5 by Jared at Sep 28, 2007 at 10:15 AM EST |
| Man I am not sure how a lot of you get such complex meanings for this song lol. It is a very very simple song. If you are a Floridian you should get this song quite easily because most of us live it everyday. It is about a dude who goes down to Florida(probably the keys) enjoys himself so much he doesn't want to leave, so he doesn't. Everyone back home thinks its because of a woman but it isn't. It is because he just fell in love with the lifestyle. it isnt about a place in your mind. His place is the Keys, many others could have other places they love and enjoy as much. | |
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Sinan90 Average |
#6 by Sinan90 at Sep 29, 2007 at 7:10 AM EST |
| Again with the sad stuff? C'mon y'all you should know better than that. There's nothing sad about drinking away your senses. That's what he's saying. Go out and drink until you don't care about it anymore. 1 2 Next | |
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Chris Wanna Be |
#7 by Chris H at Sep 29, 2007 at 2:19 PM EST |
| I agree with jdeere | |
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zakk Wanna Be |
#8 by zakk at Sep 30, 2007 at 4:49 AM EST |
| Makes ya wanna lay on the beach all day. | |
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Trent Average |
#9 by Trent Zelasney at Sep 30, 2007 at 4:55 AM EST |
| A really cool song about getting drunk out of your mind | |
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THE AMAZING JOE Wanna Be |
#10 by THE AMAZING JOE KOOL!! at Sep 30, 2007 at 9:53 AM EST |
| Margaritaville is about a guy whose life is withering away from alcohol and is too stupid to realize it. It has been embraced by people whose lives are withering away from alcohol and are too stupid to realize it. Margaritaville is a song so mellow it may as well not exist, about a guy so mellow he may as well be dead. It's an addiction song, pure and simple, but one without any balls. It wants to be a song of celebration, but it isn't; it's about that time long after the party is over and you just feel dead. | |
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Kyle Average |
#11 by Kyle at Oct 1, 2007 at 2:03 AM EST |
| Parrothead National Anthem! FINS UP! What the hell were these people thinking? Cocaine? LOL. I think they were snorting Cocaine when they came up with that analogy. That makes no sense! | |
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Will Wanna Be |
#12 by Will Hay at Oct 1, 2007 at 7:21 AM EST |
| this song says my story in the south dead on. i mean word for word. i love it. | |
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NIK Average |
#13 by NIK blaszczyszyn at Oct 1, 2007 at 9:17 PM EST |
| No no no no NO. Cocaine? Do not desecrate a beautiful mind-vacation like Margaritaville by associating it with ANYTHING as trivial and life-wasting as cocaine. Margaritaville is about celebration. "Hey, someone wrecked your car!" Appropriate answer? "So? I'll get another. And while I am at it, I'll have another frozen sumthinorother". "Hey, your Ma/wife/boss/girlfriend/parish priest/vetrinarian called, and they are PISSED-OFF at YOU!". Correct answer? "That's nice. They'll get over it. Hey, are we out of salt for the margarita glasses?". Cocaine? Please. It's about taking yourself 'off the hook', so to speak. It's about..... hanging out, and watching all the bullshit life has to throw kind of go over your head for a bit. You be immersed in it later, just...... not right now. And this is said with the grin that only being pleasantly smashed can provide. I realize that I have gone on too long, and I would stop, but.... I don''t care. In January of 2002 I took my family (Wife, 9 year old son, and myself) to Aruba. The night we left, on the way home from work, I stopped and bought myself a package of twinkies. Golden.... Spongecake! The second day we were there, I pulled up one of those loungers, and slowly ate the twinkies. Essentially, "nibblin' on spongecake". While I was doing this, I honest-to-god watched fellow tourists pouring on the oil. Some, nicer than others. And while this was happening, I had "Margaritaville" on in the cd headphones. If I live to 100, I'll never forget it. Watching my wife laugh, roll her eyes, knowing damn well what I was doing. Do it once, folks. You'll wanna do it again. Thanks for a good song, and better memory, Jimmy. | |
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Dave Average |
#14 by Dave at Oct 1, 2007 at 9:30 PM EST |
| If this song makes you want to lay on the beach all day wait until you hear some of his other stuff, example: tin cup chalice. Love the song but too mainstream and overplayed to be my favorite. | |
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GT Wanna Be |
#15 by GT at Oct 1, 2007 at 10:58 PM EST |
| not sure you can assign so much meaning to this song. After all, it's Jimmy Buffett. No need to analyze it for hidden (or not so hidden) meanings. Just sit back, grab the frozen concoction of your choice, and relax. | |
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Danny Average |
#16 by Danny at Oct 2, 2007 at 2:43 PM EST |
| My best friends' dad was trying to tell me and her that this song was about cocaine, and he was trying to explain it to us, but I just don't see it. Does anyone know anything about that?? | |
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blade Rhythm Player |
#17 by blade rhoat at Oct 3, 2007 at 5:52 AM EST |
| This kinda symbolizes the bech-bum lifestyles you'd find in Florida and the Caribbean, like the "tourists covered in oil" and such. It's a laid-back song about having a good time in the sun, with a frozen margarita to wash away your troubles. ^_^ | |
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Phil Wanna Be |
#18 by Phil Cifone at Oct 4, 2007 at 8:01 PM EST |
| SAD? COCAIN? Give me a break, there is nothing to this song, other than to give the listener a break, to take them to a state of mind. To take them to Margaritaville. If you can't see understand, maybe you oughta relax, and just listen to it and not try to understand it. | |
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He Wanna Be |
#19 by He Wo at Oct 5, 2007 at 5:16 AM EST |
| That song says it all. | |
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lee Average |
#20 by lee henninger at Oct 5, 2007 at 8:23 AM EST |
| I agree that this, in essence, is a sad song. This song is about some dude who ran away from whatever problems he had. He's "wasting away" drinking himself into a stupor and doesn't even remember anything. How can everyone say it's happy just because the way it sounds may invoke happiness to you? Give me a break. "That frozen concoction that helps me hang on." He doesn't know how to get by without being drunk anymore to try to run away from whatever's troubling him. And though he says there's no woman to blame for his current state, there obviously is, since he's saying it's his own fault that whatever it was didn't work out. Is he blaming himself? Who knows? You people need to get over the hippy mentality that this song is about a vacation. A permanent one, maybe, where your entire life turns to crap. | |
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Erick Wanna Be |
#21 by Erick at Oct 5, 2007 at 3:19 PM EST |
| If you really think about it, this is a very sad song. I mean, the poor guy is obviously getting over some girl, and margaritas are his only escape. He's trying to escape reality by getting drunk. This song serves well as an expression of pain. It is a very good song. I'm not a huge Buffett fan, but this one is beautiful in its emotion. | |
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Harry Average |
#22 by Harry Johnson at Oct 5, 2007 at 7:30 PM EST |
| He said at one of his concerts.. "People ask me just exactly where is Margaritaville? I say Anywhere you want it to be" That is proof for kkhx3's view on the song | |
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John Wanna Be |
#23 by John Agopian at Oct 6, 2007 at 7:57 AM EST |
| This song is cool. I like his style and the way he sings this. | |
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Tony Average |
#24 by Tony Riemer at Oct 6, 2007 at 4:40 PM EST |
| kkhx3 great story. read his book Margaritaville, i'm reading it right now in school and it is the best book i ever read, if u read the introduction to the song it explains what Margarittivle is. I'd tell you but i think you'd enjoy it more if you read the book. | |
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Sawyer Rhythm Player |
#25 by Sawyer Hildebrandt at Oct 6, 2007 at 5:28 PM EST |
| There is no sadness to this song. It is about being in a place in your mind. Where nothing is THAT serious, so long as you have booze in the blender. At the end of the song, it is by self admission that it really IS, "His own damn fault". But he certainly doesn't sound too bent out of shape about it. I take it that, while things in the world may be wrong, and life can be littered with strife, right NOW everything is jes' fine..... | |
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