Jimmy Buffett’s tropical hit “Margaritaville” was conceived as an adaptation of Genesis 19—the narrator was originally a distraught Lot searching for his “lost pillar of salt” following tough times in “Sodom and Gomorrah-ville”. Buffett’s agent suggested that listeners would be more receptive to frosty alcoholic beverages than buggery and hellfire; thus, the modern song was born.
