Lyrics to
Captain Jack

This version of Captain Jack was released by Billy Joel in 1973.

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Saturday night and you’re still hangin’ around
Tired of livin’ in your one-horse town
Like to find a little hole in the ground
For a while

So you go to the village in your tie-dye jeans
And you stare at the junkies and the closet queens
It’s just like some pornographic magazine
And you smile

Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push and you’ll be smilin’

Your sister’s gone out. She’s on a date
You just sit at home and masturbate
The phone is gonna ring soon but you just can’t wait
For that call

So you stand on the corner in you New English clothes
And you look so polished from your hair down to your toes
But still your finger’s gonna pick your nose
After all

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About Lyrics and Captain Jack by Billy Joel

The lyrics for Captain Jack are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by Billy Joel. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Captain Jack have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Captain Jack - Billy Joel and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Captain Jack by Billy Joel in multiple ways. 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 Captain Jack" means the words set to the music of Captain Jack, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Billy Joel. 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 Captain Jack and the lyrics to Captain Jack are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Billy Joel who came here looking just for the lyrics to Captain Jack, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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