Lyrics to
Bony Moronie

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Yeah
Oh

I got a girl named Bony Moronie
She’s as skinny as a stick of macaroni
Got to see her rock and roll with her blue jeans on
She’s not very fat, just skin and bone

Huh

Well, now I love her and she loves me
Oh, how happy now we’re gonna be
Making love underneath the apple tree, oh

Well, I told her mama and her papa, too
Just exactly what I’m gonna do
We’re gonna get married on a night in June
Rock and roll by the light of the silvery moon

Well, yeah

Well, now I love her and she loves me
Oh, how happy now we’re gonna be
Making love underneath the apple tree, hey
Huh hey, hey, hey

Well, she’s my one and only, she’s my hearts desire
She’s a real up setter, she’s a real live wire
Everybody’s watching when my baby walks by
She’s so good looking, really catches the eye

Huh oh
Yes
Let ’em in

Well, now I love her, she loves me
Oh, how happy now we’re gonna be
Making love underneath the apple tree

Yeah, yeah, underneath the apple
Making love, yeah
Making love, making love, harder
Harder, harder, harder oh baby

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John Lennon has released many songs over the years besides Bony Moronie. John Lennon released songs from 1970 to 1988 spanning across albums like John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, Some Time In New York City, Mind Games, Walls And Bridges, Rock 'N' Roll, Shaved Fish, Double Fantasy, Milk And Honey, Live In New York City, and Imagine: John Lennon. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by John Lennon.

About Lyrics and Bony Moronie by John Lennon

The lyrics to Bony Moronie are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that John Lennon used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to Bony Moronie have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only John Lennon 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 Bony Moronie by John Lennon. 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 Bony Moronie" means the words set to the music of Bony Moronie, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Lennon. 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 Bony Moronie and the lyrics to Bony Moronie are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Lennon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Bony Moronie, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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