In this song, Zac Brown says adios to Georgia and heads to the topics for a getaway where he rolls a fat one and plays his guitar on the beach, all with his toes in the water and ass in the sand. When his money runs out, the local ladies lose interest ("the senoritas don't care-o when there's no dinero") and he heads back home. But life is still good: He grabs a lawn chair and a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, finds a lake and dips his toes in the Georgia clay.
Brown co-wrote this tropical treat with his bass player, John Driskell Hopkins, and his friend, Wyatt Durrette, who co-wrote a number of Zac Brown Band hits and worked on "Beautiful Crazy" for Luke Combs. Brown told Billboard Durrette called him at about six in the morning, "Which either meant that something was wrong or that somebody was up late partying." "He said, 'I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand and we gotta write a song about it.' That's kind of how that one started."
The music video, directed by Darren Doane, introduces a character called "Flody Boatwood," whom Brown describes as a lovable, dirty Georgia kind of guy. In the video, he gets a winning scratch-off ticket and dreams of his tropical getaway. When he breaks out of his reverie, he decides to just buy beer and ice with his winnings, which are just $50. Flody is played by Jake Bartol, who worked audio for Zac Brown Band. For a while, when the band performed the song, he would show up on stage in character. Bartol reprised his role in the 2010 video for "Knee Deep."
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