Lyrics to
Down Home Town

This version of Down Home Town was released by Electric Light Orchestra (Elo) in 1975.

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The world outside don’t like us much,
‘Cos they ain’t got our classy touch,
But they ain’t good enough to breathe,
This towns good air we make ’em leave.

But it’s no, no, no, you really can’t do that,
No, no, no, down homw town.

No monkey business in this town,
Well who do you think you’re pushing round,
This towns respectable and clean,
Just look around you’ll see what I mean.

Down home town, down home town, etc.

We got the best town band around,
Just listen to their crazy sound.
When they get hot they gonna blow,
Ucedemwinnin every show.
Down home town, down home town, etc.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Down Home Town, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Electric Light Orchestra (Elo). Some of the lyrics to Down Home Town have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Electric Light Orchestra (Elo) and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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