Lyrics to
Dancing In The Street

This version of Dancing In The Street was released by Michael Bolton in 1976.

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Calling out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat
Summer’s near and the time is right
For dancing in the streets
All over the world

All we need is music, sweet music
There’ll be music everywhere
Swinging, swaying, records playing
Dancing in the streets

It doesn’t matter what you wear
Just as long as you are there
Come on, every guy, grab a girl
Everywhere, around the world
Dancing, dancing in the streets, yeah

This is an invitation, across the nation
A chance for the folks to meet
Laughing, singing, records swinging
Dancing in the streets
They’re doing it in Chicago
down in New Orleans
Don’t forget New York City

It doesn’t matter what you wear
Just as long as you are there
So come on, every guy, grab a girl
Everywhere, around the world
Dancing, dancing in the streets

This is an invitation, across the nation
A chance for the folks to meet
Summer’s near and the time is right
For dancing in the streets

It doesn’t matter what you wear
As long as you are there
Come on, every guy, grab a girl
Everywhere, around the world

Dancing in the streets
Philadelphia, Pa.
Baltimore in DC
Don’t forget New York City
All over the world
Dancing in the streets

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Michael Bolton has released many songs over the years besides Dancing In The Street. Michael Bolton released songs from 1975 to 2005 spanning across albums like Michael Bolotin, Every Day Of My Life, Michael Bolton, Everybody's Crazy, The Hunger, Soul Provider, Time, Love & Tenderness, Timeless: The Classics, The One Thing, This Is The Time: The Christmas Album, All That Matters, My Secret Passion: The Arias, Timeless: The Classics Vol. 2, Only A Woman Like You, Vintage, and 'Til The End Of Forever. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Michael Bolton.

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About Lyrics and Dancing In The Street by Michael Bolton

The lyrics to Dancing In The Street are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Michael Bolton used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Dancing In The Street have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Michael Bolton 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 Dancing In The Street by Michael Bolton. 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 Dancing In The Street" means the words set to the music of Dancing In The Street, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Michael Bolton. 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 Dancing In The Street and the lyrics to Dancing In The Street are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Michael Bolton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dancing In The Street, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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