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.
Top Definition. kutwa. Person who has been cut or genitally mutilated. ( circumcised, castrated etc. ) This slang term is usually used to refer to males who are also termed as either dickless, gutless, mindless, have no balls, and/or have no character. A coward. Someone who sponges off of the good nature and kindness of others. A parasite. There may be other meaings and variations of this term as well.