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Evil Edna

Released by Bob Seger in 1970
From the Album: Mongrel |

This version of Evil Edna was released by Bob Seger in 1970.

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Evil Edna she wore sequins to the funeral
Looked just like a gypsy
Never shed a tear
Everybody said she looked just like a hooker
Everyone mistook her for the loser of the year

Still the voices of the prophets
Tell us we should live just so
Ah Edna didn’t care
Enda did not know

Two weeks later, Edna laughed at her confession
Laughed just like a gypsy
Gave the nuns a chill

Everybody said she’d never be forgiven
Everybody cursed her, said that she was ill

Still the voices of the prophets
Tell us we should live just so
Ah Edna didn’t care
Oh she did not know

Just the other day I heard some people talkin’
Edna went out walkin’ and she passed away

No one knew exactly just what happened
No one came to mourn her, we all stayed away


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Bob Seger has released many songs over the years besides Evil Edna. Bob Seger released songs from 1969 to 2006 spanning across albums like Ramblin' Gamblin' Man, Noah, Mongrel, Brand New Morning, Smokin' O.P.'s, Back In '72, Seven, Beautiful Loser, Night Moves, Live Bullet, Stranger In Town, Against The Wind, Nine Tonight, The Distance, Like A Rock, The Fire Inside, Greatest Hits, It's A Mystery, Greatest Hits 2, and Face The Promise. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bob Seger.

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About Lyrics and Evil Edna by Bob Seger

The lyrics for Evil Edna are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by Bob Seger. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Evil Edna have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Evil Edna - Bob Seger and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Evil Edna by Bob Seger in multiple ways. 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 Evil Edna" means the words set to the music of Evil Edna, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bob Seger. 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 Evil Edna and the lyrics to Evil Edna are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bob Seger who came here looking just for the lyrics to Evil Edna, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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