Lyrics to
Fat Nelly

This version of Fat Nelly was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1975.

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Fat Nelly was killed with a butcher’s knife
Nobody laughed, nobody cried
And her blood ran red all over my life
Nobody laughed, nobody cried

A street screamed rape by a garden gate
Nobody laughed, nobody cried
But the hinges were oiled the police came late
Nobody laughed, nobody cried

Fat Nelly was killed with a butcher’s knife
Nobody laughed, nobody cried
And her blood ran red all over my life
Nobody laughed, nobody cried

A street screamed rape by a garden gate
Nobody laughed, nobody cried
But the hinges were oiled the police came late
Nobody laughed, nobody cried

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band has released many songs over the years besides Fat Nelly. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Glorified Magnified, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Messin', Solar Fire, The Good Earth, Nightingales & Bombers, The Roaring Silence, Watch, Angel Station, Chance, Somewhere In Afrika, Criminal Tango, Masque, Soft Vengeance, and 2006. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

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About Lyrics and Fat Nelly by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

The lyrics for Fat Nelly are defined as the words making up the song released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1975. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Fat Nelly have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 Fat Nelly by Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 Fat Nelly" means the words set to the music of Fat Nelly, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. 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 Nelly and the lyrics to Fat Nelly are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Manfred Mann's Earth Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Fat Nelly, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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