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.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Bodkin. bodâ²kin, n. a small dagger: a small instrument for pricking holes or for dressing the hair: a large blunt needle.âTo sit, or ride, bodkin, to be wedged in tight between two others. [Prob. conn.