I can't beleive no one has mentioned the original pain in the ass pirate himself...Jimmy Buffet. I get more requests for this crap than anything else. I could play an entire set of traditional folk tunes, but as soon as some idiot with a bad "parrot head" t-shirt and a pair of flip-flops on sees an acoustic guitar, he wants to hear "margaritaville". Worse yet, when they consider themselves musically literate and dip into thier extensive archive of non-cliche folk songs and request "A pirate looks at forty".

The last annoying thing is the guy who wanders up to the stage and wants to have a conversation with you - mid-song!!

A friend of mine was playing a gig a while back where a really drunken woman kept shouting "Jimmy Buffet". He dealt with it for about an hour until he'd had enough. He leaned over toward her and almost yelled into the microphone, "Lady, Jimmy's dead"

-Spartacus