Lyrics to
Daytime Hustler

This version of Daytime Hustler was released by Bette Midler in 1972.

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Daytime Husler, you’re out of line.
Don’t ya try to change my mind!
Don’t you try.
You see, I ain’t no fool.
No, I can tell,
oh, baby, you ain’t my kind!
My ki-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-hi-hi-hind!

I’m in love with a down-home man.
Simple lovin’ I can understand.
I’ve been hustled by the best of them,
and you ain’t nothing but a crazy man.
Hustler.

Oh, daytime hustler, you better look away.
Because I won’t play your game no more.
No, no more, no.
You spend all of your money
on those other women
who are blind enough to buy your shame.
All your sha-a-a-a-a-ame, oh, oh, oh.

Fancy money doesn’t buy my love!
Flashy Cadillacs won’t make me f-ck!
I been hustled by the best of them,
and you ain’t nothing but a crazy man.

Hustler, hustler,
hustler, hustler,
ooh, hustler,
hustler, baby, oh!

Whoa! Daytime Hustler!
Ooh, what did you say?
I say you’re a jive, jive dude.
Yes, I do. Yes, I do.
you just don’t, you just don’t,
ya just don’t know
that you are really,
you’re really not too cool.
And I believe your mind is slow.
Oh, oh, oh.

I’m in love with a down-home man.
Simple lovin’ I can understand.
I’ve been hustled by the best of them,
and you ain’t nothing but a crazy, crazy man.
Hustler, hustler, hustler, hustler,
hustler, hustler, hustler baby.
Oh, hustler. Oh, hustler. Oh, hustler.
Hustler baby . . .

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Bette Midler has released many songs over the years besides Daytime Hustler. Bette Midler released songs from 1972 to 2006 spanning across albums like The Divine Miss M, Bette Midler, Songs For The New Depression, Broken Blossom, Live At Last, Thighs And Whispers, The Rose, Divine Madness, No Frills, Mud Will Be Flung Tonight!, Beaches, Some People's Lives, For The Boys, Gypsy, Bette Of Roses, Bathhouse Betty, Bette, Bette Midler Sings The Rosemary Clooney Songbook, Bette Midler Sings The Peggy Lee Songbook, and Cool Yule. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bette Midler.

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About Lyrics and Daytime Hustler by Bette Midler

The lyrics to Daytime Hustler are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Bette Midler used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to Daytime Hustler have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Bette Midler 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 Daytime Hustler by Bette Midler. 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 Daytime Hustler" means the words set to the music of Daytime Hustler, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bette Midler. 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 Daytime Hustler and the lyrics to Daytime Hustler are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bette Midler who came here looking just for the lyrics to Daytime Hustler, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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