Lyrics to
D’yer Mak’er

This version of D’Yer Mak’Er was released by Led Zeppelin in 1973.

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Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You don’t have to go oh oh oh oh oh
You don’t have to go oh oh oh oh oh
You don’t Have to go.

Ay ay ay ay ay ay
All those tears I cry ay ay ay ay ay
All those tears I cry ay ay ay ay ay
Baby please don’t go.

When I read the letter you wrote, it made me mad mad mad
When I read the words that it told me, it made me sad sad sad.
But I still love you so, I can’t let you go
I love you- ooh baby I love you.

Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Every breath I take oh oh oh oh oh
Every move I make oh oh oh oh oh
Baby please don’t go.

Ay ay ay ay ay ay
You hurt me to my soul ay ay ay ay ay
You hurt me to my soul ay ay ay ay ay
Darling please don’t go.

When I read the letter you sent me, it made me mad mad mad
When I read the news that it broke, it made me sad sad sad.
But I still love you so, and I can’t let you go
I love you- ooh baby I love ya.
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You don’t have to go oh oh oh oh
You don’t have to go oh oh oh oh
Aw Baby, babe Please Please Please Please
Ah uh ah uh ah ah baby
Ah Uh I still love you baby
Ooh Ooh, ooh ohh, ooh ooh Darling
Oh Oh-wo Aw baby I still love you so
Aw baby I still love you so oh-wo ooh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh yeah (fire)
Ah ah ah ah ah ah oh (fire)
Ah ah ah ah ah
Ooooh (fire) yeah
Oh Baby, Baby

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When you decide to study the lyrics to D’Yer Mak’Er, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Led Zeppelin. Some of the lyrics to D’Yer Mak’Er have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Led Zeppelin and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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