Lyrics to
Call The Police

This version of Call The Police was released by Thin Lizzy in 1972.

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Betty was worried about the lover that she has married
and she didn’t know what to do
He’d been hit by a hammer on the head and he lay dead
an’ all her worst fears had come true

Call the police
Call the police
Call the police
Call the police

Johnny was a joker and a very heavy smoker
and he never ever broke the law
Thin Miss Lizzy was a-kept very busy
and sometimes very dizzy, we knew what for

And take ’em all away
Lock ’em up

Louie was a loner and a big time Al Capone-er
doin’ all his dipping from the door
He knew a shady dealer who had done a dirty DJ,
the sooner he could even the score

And lock ’em up
Help ya have a birthday, say
Take ’em all away

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Thin Lizzy has released many songs over the years besides Call The Police. Thin Lizzy released songs from 1971 to 1983 spanning across albums like Thin Lizzy, New Day, Shades Of A Blue Orphanage, Vagabonds Of The Western World, Nightlife, Fighting, Jailbreak, Johnny The Fox, Bad Reputation, Black Rose: A Rock Legend, Chinatown, Renegade, and Thunder And Lightning. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Thin Lizzy.

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About Lyrics and Call The Police by Thin Lizzy

The lyrics for Call The Police are defined as the words making up the song released by Thin Lizzy in 1972. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Call The Police have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Thin Lizzy and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Call The Police by Thin Lizzy if you think through it. 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 Call The Police" means the words set to the music of Call The Police, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Thin Lizzy. 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 Call The Police and the lyrics to Call The Police are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Thin Lizzy who came here looking just for the lyrics to Call The Police, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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