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.
Bare lymphocyte syndrome (BLS) is a rare immunodeficiency disorder caused by or associated with the failure of expression of cell surface antigens encoded for by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). It is now apparent that this syndrome is heterogeneous with regards to defective cell surface antigen expression.