The world mourned the loss of Jimmy Buffett over the weekend, with Parrotheads everywhere toasting their margaritas one last time to Bubba.
But did you know, there is a bar in Texas where supposedly, Buffett drew inspiration for his most well-known song?
Legend has it that Buffett came up with the concept for "Margaritaville" in a bar in Austin!
According to Texas Monthly, Buffett explained how he came up with the idea for the song while memorializing his friend Jerry Jeff Walker.
At the time, Buffett said, "
I came to Austin a lot in those days. I made it there by getting these college bookings and getting on Willie's second Fourth of July picnic. I played Castle Creek many times. I think it was after one of those shows, the next morning I had a hangover and I had to fly home that afternoon.
I went to El Rey, a Mexican restaurant on Anderson Lane for lunch. I had a margarita, which helped with the hangover, and in the car on the way to the airport the chorus of a new song started to come to me. I wrote a little more on the plane and finished the rest of 'Margaritaville' back in Key West.
Even further, Buffett told the New York Post back in 2018 "I was going to call it 'Wasting Away Again in Austin, Texasville.'"
Whether its Key West or Austin, true Parrotheads know that Margaritivaille is really a state of mind.
Buffett said it best, before playing the song on the live album You Had to Be There, "This is a little song about an island that's nowhere other than in your mind or at the bottom of the Cuervo bottle. People ask me, they go, 'Where the hell is Margaritaville?' I go, 'It's anywhere you want it to be, baby."
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