Lyrics to
A Little Night Dancin’

This version of A Little Night Dancin’ was released by John Cougar Mellencamp in 1979.

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Well west of Zion
They got a hot spot brewing
Handcuffs and kisses
For the people who live there

Guitar player’s playing
Cinderella saying
Hey boys get that spoon to my nose
And we’ll run through the midnight air

Night, night, whoa night dancin’
Hey just a little, little, little night dancin’
Night, night, whoa night dancin’
Hey just a little, little, little night dancin’

Sodom and Gomorah
They run the roadhouse
They keep everything jumping
As the drummer keeps the beat

And it’s really something when those kids start bitchin’
Yeah it starts me itching
As I jump to my feet to go

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John Cougar Mellencamp has released many songs over the years besides A Little Night Dancin’. John Cougar Mellencamp released songs from 1976 to 2007 spanning across albums like Chestnut Street Incident, A Biography, John Cougar, Nothin' Matters And What If It Did, American Fool, The Kid Inside, Uh-Huh, Scarecrow, The Lonesome Jubilee, Big Daddy, Whenever We Wanted, Human Wheels, Dance Naked, Mr. Happy Go Lucky, John Mellencamp, Rough Harvest, Cuttin' Heads, Trouble No More, and Freedom's Road. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by John Cougar Mellencamp.

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About Lyrics and A Little Night Dancin’ by John Cougar Mellencamp

The lyrics for A Little Night Dancin’ are defined as the words making up the song released by John Cougar Mellencamp in 1979. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to A Little Night Dancin’ have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only John Cougar Mellencamp and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to A Little Night Dancin’ by John Cougar Mellencamp if you think through it. 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 A Little Night Dancin’" means the words set to the music of A Little Night Dancin’, 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 A Little Night Dancin’ and the lyrics to A Little Night Dancin’ 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 A Little Night Dancin’, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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