Lyrics to
Good Girls

This version of Good Girls was released by John Cougar Mellencamp in 1976.

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Good girls don’t stay for breakfast
They know it’s in poor taste
Good girls won’t blow your evening
With small talkin’ chit chat just a waste

I don’t wanna walk with you
And I don’t wanna talk with you
And I don’t wanna be with you
’till the night time

Good girls have reputation
Good girls have to keep it clean
But you girl you’re so damn reckless
You’re a boll weevil evilly obscene

Hey girl you know I’ve heard those stories
About you girl last of the pony-tail queens
China chops are a dime a dozen
So hey girl go on and shake that thing

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About Lyrics and Good Girls by John Cougar Mellencamp

When you decide to study the lyrics to Good Girls, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by John Cougar Mellencamp. Some of the lyrics to Good Girls have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only John Cougar Mellencamp and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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