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Dance This Mess Around

Released by The B-52'S in 1979
From the Album: The B-52'S |

This version of Dance This Mess Around was released by The B-52'S in 1979.

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Remember when you held my hand
Remember when you were my man
Walk talk in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Think it over, think it over
Roll it over in your mind
Why don’t you dance with me
I’m not no Limburger
Just a limburger

Dance this mess around
Dance this mess around, ’round, ’round

Everybody goes to parties
They dance this mess around
They do the Shu-ga-loo
Do the Shy Tuna
Do the Camel Walk
Do the Hip-o-crit

Ah-Hippy Hippy forward Hippy Hippy
Hippy Shake, Hippy Shake

Oh-it’s time to do ’em right
Hey now, don’t that make you feel a whole lot better?
Huh?
I say, don’t that make you feel a whole lot better

What you say?
I’m just askin’

Shake-Bake-Shake-Bake

Everybody goes to parties
They dance this mess around
They do all 16 dances
Do the Coo-ca-choo
Do the Aqua-velva
Do the Dirty Dog
Do the Escalator

Ah-Hippy Hippy forward Hippy Hippy
Hippy Shake, Hippy Shake

It’s time to do ’em right
Hey! Fred, now don’t that make you feel a whole lot better now?
Huh?

Say, don’t that make you feel a whole lot better?

What you say?
I’m just askin’

Yeah, yeah, yeah…
Stop!
Dance on over
Yeah, yeah

Dance, dance, dance this mess around
Dance this mess around

Shake, shake-a-bake shake
Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
Dance this mess around
Yeah, yeah, yeah……..


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About Lyrics and Dance This Mess Around by The B-52'S

The lyrics for Dance This Mess Around are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by The B-52'S. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Dance This Mess Around 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 Dance This Mess Around - The B-52'S and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Dance This Mess Around by The B-52'S 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 Dance This Mess Around" means the words set to the music of Dance This Mess Around, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The B-52'S. 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 Dance This Mess Around and the lyrics to Dance This Mess Around are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The B-52'S who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dance This Mess Around, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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