Lyrics to
Dead Babies

This version of Dead Babies was released by Alice Cooper in 1971.

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Little Betty ate a pound of aspirin she got them from the shelf upon the wall
Betty’s mommy wasn’t there to save her she didn’t even hear her little baby call
Dead babies can’t take care of themselves dead babies can’t take things off the shelf
Well we didn’t want you anyway lalalalalalalalalalala
Daddy is an agrophile in Texas mommy’s on the bar most every night
Little Betty’s sleeping in the graveyard living there in burgundy and white
Dead babies can’t take care of themselves dead babies can’t take things off the shelf
Well we didn’t love you anyway lalalalalalalalalalala
Goodbye little Betty goodbye little Betty so long little Betty so long little Betty Betty so long
Dead babies can’t take care of themselves dead babies can’t take things off the shelf
Well we didn’t need you anyway lalalalalalalalalalala goodbye little Betty

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Dead Babies, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Alice Cooper. Some of the lyrics to Dead Babies have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Alice Cooper and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Dead Babies if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Dead Babies" means the words set to the music of Dead Babies, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Alice Cooper. 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 Dead Babies and the lyrics to Dead Babies are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Alice Cooper who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dead Babies, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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