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Bring Back That Leroy Brown

This version of Bring Back That Leroy Brown was released by Queen in 1974.

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Bring back, bring back
Bring back that Leroy Brown – yeah

Bring back, bring back
Gotta bring that Leroy Brown – back

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The lyrics to Bring Back That Leroy Brown are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Queen used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Bring Back That Leroy Brown have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Queen 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 Bring Back That Leroy Brown by Queen. 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 Bring Back That Leroy Brown" means the words set to the music of Bring Back That Leroy Brown, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Queen. 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 Bring Back That Leroy Brown and the lyrics to Bring Back That Leroy Brown are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Queen who came here looking just for the lyrics to Bring Back That Leroy Brown, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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