Lyrics to
8th Avenue Shuffle

This version of 8Th Avenue Shuffle was released by The Doobie Brothers in 1976.

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Hey, hey, honey, what’s on your mind
Well, you said that sleepin’ with a poor band’s not your style
Ain’t that just a little unkind
Hey, Marlon Brando, what would you do in a spot like this
I don’t play as your pawn tonight
Doin’ the New York Hustle with a hundred dollar miss
Summer night in the city
New York girls they always make you feel so fine
There’s music, and I can always hear it playin’
New York Nights and there’s music in the streets

A doin’ the Eighth Avenue Shuffle on a Friday afternoon
With the hum of a thousand engines
Singin’ that old familiar tune
And now yakety yak and don’t talk back
When a guy lay me down with my Pontiac
Tell those high school queens of mine that the
Prom was for your monkey shine

Try ‘n’ a catch a cab in New York City
New York girls are oh, so pretty
Try ‘n’ a catch a cab in New York City
New York girls make you feel so fine
Try ‘n’ a catch a cab in New York City
New York girls are oh, so pretty
Try ‘n’ a catch a cab in New York City
Music in the streets

Another night, another town
I’m out on the road and ther’s no one around
And it’s rainin’, yeah, it’s rainin’
Silence is all around
It’s cold and lonely, oh darlin’, if only I could feel it
Oh, can you feel it

Eighth Avenue Shuffle on a Friday afternoon
With the hum of a thousand engines
Singin’ that old familiar tune
Hey, Marlon Brando, do you agree it feels so fine
Doin’ the New York Hustle
These girls are doin’ the monkey shine

Summer night in the city
New York girls they always make you feel so fine
There’s music, and I can always hear it playin’
New York Nights and there’s music in the streets

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The Doobie Brothers has released many songs over the years besides 8Th Avenue Shuffle. The Doobie Brothers released songs from 1971 to 2000 spanning across albums like The Doobie Brothers, Toulouse Street, The Captain And Me, What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits, Stampede, Takin' It To The Streets, Livin' On The Fault Line, Minute By Minute, One Step Closer, Cycles, Brotherhood, and Sibling Rivalry. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Doobie Brothers.

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About Lyrics and 8Th Avenue Shuffle by The Doobie Brothers

The lyrics to 8Th Avenue Shuffle are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Doobie Brothers used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to 8Th Avenue Shuffle have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Doobie Brothers and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to 8Th Avenue Shuffle by The Doobie Brothers. 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 8Th Avenue Shuffle" means the words set to the music of 8Th Avenue Shuffle, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Doobie Brothers. 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 8Th Avenue Shuffle and the lyrics to 8Th Avenue Shuffle are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Doobie Brothers who came here looking just for the lyrics to 8Th Avenue Shuffle, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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