Lyrics to
Don’t Start Me Talkin’

This version of Don’T Start Me Talkin’ was released by The Doobie Brothers in 1972.

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Goin’ down to Rosie’s
Stop at Fanny May’s
Gonna tell Fanny what I heard her boyfriend say
Now don’t you start me talkin’
I’ll tell ev’rything I know
I’m gonna break up this signifyin’
‘Cause somebody gotta go
Jack gave his wife two dollar
Go down to the market
Get out on the street, ol’ George stopped her
He knocked her down
And blacked her eye
She get back home and tell her husband a lie
Now don’t you start me talkin’
I’ll tell ev’rything I know
I’m gonna break up this signifyin’
‘Cause somebody gotta go

She borrowed some money
To go to the beauty shop
“I’m goin’ to a place where I can get my hair sot”
Now don’t you start me talkin’
I’ll tell ev’rything I know
I’m gonna break up this signifyin’
‘Cause somebody gotta go

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About Lyrics and Don’T Start Me Talkin’ by The Doobie Brothers

The lyrics for Don’T Start Me Talkin’ are defined as the words making up the song released by The Doobie Brothers in 1972. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Don’T Start Me Talkin’ have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only The Doobie Brothers and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Don’T Start Me Talkin’ by The Doobie Brothers if you think through it. 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 Don’T Start Me Talkin’" means the words set to the music of Don’T Start Me Talkin’, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Doobie Brothers. 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 Don’T Start Me Talkin’ and the lyrics to Don’T Start Me Talkin’ are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Doobie Brothers who came here looking just for the lyrics to Don’T Start Me Talkin’, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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