Lyrics to
Dirty Little Girl

This version of Dirty Little Girl was released by Elton John in 1973.

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I’ve seen a lot of women who haven’t had much luck
I’ve seen you looking like you’ve been run down by a truck
That ain’t nice to say sometimes I guess I’m really hard
But I’m gonna put buckshots in your pants if you step into my yard

When I watch the police come by and move you on
Well I sometimes wonder what’s beneath the mess you’ve become
Well you may have been a pioneer in the trade of women’s wear
But all you got was a mop up job washing other people’s stairs

I’m gonna tell the world, you’re a dirty little girl
Someone grab that bitch by the ears
Rub her down scrub her back
And turn her inside out
`Cause I bet she hasn’t had a bath in years

Here’s my own belief about all the dirty girls
That you have to clean the oyster to find the pearl
And like rags that belong to you I belong to myself
So don’t show up around here till your social worker’s helped

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About Lyrics and Dirty Little Girl by Elton John

When you decide to study the lyrics to Dirty Little Girl, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Elton John. Some of the lyrics to Dirty Little Girl have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Elton John and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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