Lyrics to
Bip Bop

This version of Bip Bop was released by Paul Mccartney in 1971.

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Bip bop, bip bip bop
Bip bop, bip bip band

Dig your bottom dollar
put it in your hand

Try to hang out
underneath the stand

Put your hands together
gonna see a band

Treat me like a good boy
Treat me like a man

Take me hair and curlers
But treat me like a man

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Paul Mccartney has released many songs over the years besides Bip Bop. Paul Mccartney released songs from 1970 to 2007 spanning across albums like McCartney, Ram, Wild Life, Band On The Run, Red Rose Speedway, Venus And Mars, Wings At The Speed Of Sound, London Town, Back To The Egg, McCartney II, Tug Of War, Pipes Of Peace, Give My Regards To Broad Street, Press To Play, CHOBA B CCCP (Back In The USSR), Flowers In The Dirt, Tripping The Live Fantastic, Unplugged (The Official Bootleg), Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, Off The Ground, Flaming Pie, Run Devil Run, Driving Rain, Chaos And Creation In The Backyard, and Memory Almost Full. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Paul Mccartney.

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About Lyrics and Bip Bop by Paul Mccartney

The lyrics to Bip Bop are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Paul Mccartney used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to Bip Bop have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Paul Mccartney 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 Bip Bop by Paul Mccartney. 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 Bip Bop" means the words set to the music of Bip Bop, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Paul Mccartney. 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 Bip Bop and the lyrics to Bip Bop are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Paul Mccartney who came here looking just for the lyrics to Bip Bop, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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