Lyrics to
Cretin Hop

This version of Cretin Hop was released by Ramones in 1977.

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There’s no stoppin’ the cretins from hoppin’
You gotta keep it beatin’
For all the hoppin’ cretins

Cretin! Cretin!

I’m gonna go for a whirl with my cretin girl
My feet won’t stop
Doin’ the Cretin Hop

Cretin! Cretin!

1-2-3-4
Cretins wanna hop some more
4-5-6-7
All good cretins go to heaven

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Ramones has released many songs over the years besides Cretin Hop. Ramones released songs from 1976 to 1994 spanning across albums like Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket To Russia, Road To Ruin, End Of The Century, Pleasant Dreams, Subterranean Jungle, Too Tough To Die, Animal Boy, Halfway To Sanity, Brain Drain, Mondo Bizarro, Acid Eaters, and Adios Amigos!. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Ramones.

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About Lyrics and Cretin Hop by Ramones

The lyrics for Cretin Hop are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Ramones. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Cretin Hop 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 Cretin Hop - Ramones 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 Cretin Hop by Ramones 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 Cretin Hop" means the words set to the music of Cretin Hop, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Ramones. 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 Cretin Hop and the lyrics to Cretin Hop are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Ramones who came here looking just for the lyrics to Cretin Hop, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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