Lyrics to
Dancing In The Street

This version of Dancing In The Street was released by Neil Diamond in 1979.

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Are you ready to let it happen to you tonight?
Oh yes,
Do it now
Here we go

Calling out ’round the world
Ready for a brand new beat
We’re all here, the time is right,
Dancing in the street

They’re out in Chicago, New York City
All we need is music,
Sweet music
There’ll be music everywhere
There’ll be swinging and swaying
Records playin’
Dancing in the street

It doesn’t matter what you wear
Just as long as you are there
Come on, come on
Now every guy, grab a girl
Oh everywhere around the world
They’re dancing in the street
Dancing
Dancing in the street
Dancing

Invitation across the nation
The chance for folks who want to meet
There’ll be laughing, singing, music swinging
Dancing in the street
Philadelphia, PA
Baltimore and D.C. now

All we need is music,
Sweet music
There’ll be music everywhere
There’ll be swinging and swaying
Records playin’
Dancing in the street

Alright girls, do it to me
Here we go
Oh, yeah
You got it
Huh!
Do it to me now
And …

All we need is music, HA
Sweet music
There’ll be music everywhere
There’ll be swinging and swaying
Records playin’, HA
Dancing in the street

It doesn’t matter what you wear
Just as long as you are there , Gang
Come on every guy grab a girl
Everywhere around the world
They be dancing in the street
Dancing
Dancing in the street
Dancing
Dancing in the street
Dancing
Dancing in the street
Dancing
Dancing in the street
Dancing
Oh that’ll do it, Oh yes

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About Lyrics and Dancing In The Street by Neil Diamond

The lyrics to Dancing In The Street are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Neil Diamond used when the song was created in 1979. 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 Neil Diamond 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 Neil Diamond. 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 Neil Diamond. 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 Neil Diamond 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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