Lyrics to
Baron Samedi

Released by 10Cc in 1974
From the Album: Sheet Music |

This version of Baron Samedi was released by 10Cc in 1974.

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I’ll show you man who walk on fire
And don’t get burned
Don’t get burned, don’t get burned
He don’t get burned
I’ll show you man who tread on glass
And he don’t get cut
Don’t get cut, don’t get cut
He don’t get cut

You can take a knife and slit his throat
And he won’t drop dead
Won’t drop dead, won’t drop dead
He won’t drop dead
Been a ju-ju boy for a thousand years
And he ain’t cut yet
Ain’t cut yet, ain’t cut yet
He ain’t cut yet

Hold ’em
You’ve got to crease ’em and fold ’em
You’ve got to shape ’em and mould ’em
Take a piece of their soul man

Well he can take a little moonlight
Suck the poison from a snakebite
Movin’ round about midnight
He’s got the power of life

See the sacrifice of the virgin women
See the deadly snake and the headless chicken
Take a sip from dripping red
Make it with the living dead

Take you up when you feeling down
When you’re sick he will come around
Takes his cures from out the ground
He’s the one who can hypnotize
And you’ll never believe your eyes
He can cause the dead to rise


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10Cc has released many songs over the years besides Baron Samedi. 10Cc released songs from 1973 to 1995 spanning across albums like 10cc, Sheet Music, The Original Soundtrack, How Dare You!, Deceptive Bends, Bloody Tourists, Look Hear?, Ten Out Of 10, Windows In The Jungle, ...Meanwhile, and Mirror Mirror. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by 10Cc.

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About Lyrics and Baron Samedi by 10Cc

The lyrics for Baron Samedi are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by 10Cc. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Baron Samedi have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Baron Samedi - 10Cc and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Baron Samedi by 10Cc in multiple ways. 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 Baron Samedi" means the words set to the music of Baron Samedi, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by 10Cc. 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 Baron Samedi and the lyrics to Baron Samedi are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of 10Cc who came here looking just for the lyrics to Baron Samedi, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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