Lyrics to
Bottoms Up!

This version of Bottoms Up! was released by Van Halen in 1979.

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I’ve been sitting here ’bout half the night.
Oh, mama, fill my cup up.
Said I came to waste some time.
I think I’m gonna jump up.
I’m singin’, I’m dancin’ most every night.
And I want to do that with you babe.
Let’s do this bottle right.
Oh, oh, baby, bottoms up.
Pretty maids, all in a row, go on, set ’em up, up.
Come um um um um um, baby, bottoms up.
I’m singin’, I’m dancin’ most every night.
And I want to do that with you, babe.
Let’s do this bottle right.
Come um um um um um, baby, bottoms up.
Come um um um um um, baby, bottoms up.

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About Lyrics and Bottoms Up! by Van Halen

When you decide to study the lyrics to Bottoms Up!, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Van Halen. Some of the lyrics to Bottoms Up! have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Van Halen and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Bottoms Up! if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Bottoms Up!" means the words set to the music of Bottoms Up!, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Van Halen. 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 Bottoms Up! and the lyrics to Bottoms Up! are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Van Halen who came here looking just for the lyrics to Bottoms Up!, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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