Lyrics to
Ghost Town

This version of Ghost Town was released by Cat Stevens in 1974.

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Come on lets go down
Everybody’s waiting for us
Down at the ghost town
Bill Bailey said hed be around
If Mrs. G. Robinson would just put
That bad Havana down

Lovely Queen Anne Boleyn
Learning new tricks from the Great Houdini. Wo Wo
Now that’s the way shes gonna make it Wo Wo

Come on
Come on lets go down
Everybody’s waiting for us
Down at the boom town
O. Redding & Washington
Chico & Harpo & Karl are
In the Kitchen with mum

Buster Keaton & King Tut
Are waiting for Disney to wake up Wo Wo
Now that’s the way
No that ain’t the way hes gonna make it

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Cat Stevens has released many songs over the years besides Ghost Town. Cat Stevens released songs from 1967 to 1978 spanning across albums like New Masters, Matthew & Son, Tea For The Tillerman, Mona Bone Jakon, Teaser And The Firecat, Catch Bull At Four, Foreigner, Buddha And The Chocolate Box, Numbers, Izitso, and Back To Earth. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Cat Stevens.

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About Lyrics and Ghost Town by Cat Stevens

The lyrics to Ghost Town are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Cat Stevens in 1974. Elements of the lyrics to Ghost Town are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Cat Stevens and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Ghost Town back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Ghost Town by Cat Stevens in a number of 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 Ghost Town" means the words set to the music of Ghost Town, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Cat Stevens. 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 Ghost Town and the lyrics to Ghost Town are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Cat Stevens who came here looking just for the lyrics to Ghost Town, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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