Lyrics to
Holiday Inn

This version of Holiday Inn was released by Elton John in 1971.

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Boston at last and the plane’s touching down
Our hostess is handing the hot towels around
From a terminal gate to a black limousine
It’s a ten minute ride to the Holiday Inn

Boredom’s a pastime that one soon acquired
Where you get to the stage where you’re not even tired
Kicking your heels till the time comes around
To pick up your bags and head out of town

Slow down Joe, I’m a rock and roll man
I’ve twiddled my thumbs in a dozen odd bands
And you ain’t seen nothing till you’ve been
In a motel baby like the Holiday Inn

Oh I don’t even know if it’s Cleveland or Maine
With the buildings as big and rooms just the same
And the TV don’t work and the French fries are cold
And the room service closed about an hour ago

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About Lyrics and Holiday Inn by Elton John

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

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

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