Lyrics to
High On You Mama

This version of High On You Mama was released by The Steve Miller Band in 1972.

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Don’t you know that I’m high on you mama
Don’t you know that I’m high on you girl
Don’t you know that I’m high on a feeling
Don’t you know that I’m high cause you’re here
Don’t you know that I’m way up on a mountain
Don’t you know that I’m way up in the air
Don’t you know that I’m high on the sunshine
Don’t you know that I’m high cause you care

I’m high
Don’t you know that I’m high
Don’t you know that I’m high
High, high, high
On you mama

Don’t you know that I’m high on you mama
Don’t you know that I’m high on you girl
Don’t you know that I’m high on a feeling
Don’t you know that I’m high cause you’re here
Don’t you know that I’m way up on a mountain
Don’t you know that I’m way up in the air
Don’t you know that I’m high on the sunshine
Don’t you know that I’m high cause you care

I’m high
Don’t you know that I’m high
High, high, high

Don’t you know that I’m high
Don’t you know that I’m high
Don’t you know that I’m high
Don’t you know that I’m high

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About Lyrics and High On You Mama by The Steve Miller Band

The lyrics to High On You Mama are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Steve Miller Band used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to High On You Mama have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Steve Miller Band and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to High On You Mama by The Steve Miller Band. 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 High On You Mama" means the words set to the music of High On You Mama, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Steve Miller 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 High On You Mama and the lyrics to High On You Mama are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Steve Miller Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to High On You Mama, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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