Lyrics to
Fat Man

This version of Fat Man was released by Nazareth in 1971.

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Fat man at the window
Bet you know why
Fat man at the window
Nobody wants to buy
Fat man, fat man, fat man
Nobody wants to know him
Fat man

Fat man at the mirror
Don’t let it break easy
Fat man at the mirror
Got no heart to please
Fat man, fat man, fat man
Nobody wants to know him
Fat man

Nobody wants to talk to him
Walk with him, be seen with him
Nobody wants to speak to him
Be with him, look like him

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Nazareth has released many songs over the years besides Fat Man. Nazareth released songs from 1971 to 1998 spanning across albums like Nazareth, Excercises, Razamanaz, Loud 'N' Proud, Rampant, Hair Of The Dog, Play 'N' The Game, Close Enough For Rock 'N' Roll, Expect No Mercy, No Mean City, Malice In Wonderland, The Fool Circle, 2XS, Sound Elixir, The Catch, Cinema, Snakes 'N' Ladders, No Jive, From The Vaults, Move Me, and Boogaloo. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Nazareth.

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About Lyrics and Fat Man by Nazareth

When you decide to study the lyrics to Fat Man, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Nazareth. Some of the lyrics to Fat Man have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Nazareth and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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