Lyrics to
Night Slumming

This version of Night Slumming was released by John Cougar Mellencamp in 1978.

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(Night Slumming – burp 123)
Well good evening to, the dirty bordellos
And good evening to, the girls who work uptown
And say hello, well hello, to the gay young fellows
Who make their love, on the meat rack
In their sister’s gowns

Well I ain’t no king, but I ain’t no princess
And I don’t get drunk, no no
But I can still be blown away
The phantom lover of the future
And I don’t go to work
‘Cause I sleep all through the day
Talkin’ ’bout

Night, night, night, night slummin’
Night, night, night, night slummin’
Night, night, night, night slummin’
So when you see me tonight
I’d be reaching the heights
So were coming

I never counted on …
All the good things have been taken away from me
Aww, heavy or hard, I know those younger punches
Cause tonight is another day for destiny

Well the damage is done, hey I can’t really feel it
Well I don’t fault your love and
The bathroom stains, oh yeah
And its a little too fast and dieing too young
That’s what we’re talking about
Well it’s this slummin’ that makes me
Stop to think

Night, night, night, night slummin’
Night, night, night, night slummin'(goodnight)
Night, night, night, night slummin'(yeah, yeah)

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You can understand the lyrics to Night Slumming if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Night Slumming" means the words set to the music of Night Slumming, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Cougar Mellencamp. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Night Slumming and the lyrics to Night Slumming are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Cougar Mellencamp who came here looking just for the lyrics to Night Slumming, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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