Lyrics to
Hot Potatoes

This version of Hot Potatoes was released by The Kinks in 1972.

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My baby woke me up this mornin’
She said get down that labour exchange,
And if you don’t come home with a job son,
You’ll get no dinner to-day.
You gotta secure me a weekly workin’ wage.
You’ll get no more fancy cookin’,
You’ll get no more apple pie,
You’ll just get those plain hot potatoes
To satisfy your appetite.

La la la la la la Potatoes,
Boiled, French fried, any old way that you wanna decide.
Hot potatoes, yeh,
I want your lovin’ every single day.

I said I don’t need your fancy cooking,
I like the simple things in life,
Just give me those plain hot potatoes
And I’ll be well satisfied,
They’ll satisfy my appetite.

La la la la la la Potatoes,
Boiled, French fried, any old way that you wanna decide.
Hot potatoes, yeh,
I want your lovin’ 60 minutes an hour,
I want your lovin’ 24 hours a day,
I want your lovin’ 7 days a week.
Yeh, yeh, oh yeh.
I want your love, I need your love,
But all I get is hot potatoes
When I come home late at night
To satisfy my appetite.

Don’t give me no more potatoes,
Boiled, French fried, any old way you wanna decide.
Hot potatoes,
I want your lovin’ every single day.
I want your lovin’

La la la la la la Potatoes,
Boiled, French fried, any old way that you wanna decide.
Hot potatoes, Hot potatoes, yeh.

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About Lyrics and Hot Potatoes by The Kinks

The lyrics for Hot Potatoes are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by The Kinks. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Hot Potatoes have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Hot Potatoes - The Kinks and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Hot Potatoes by The Kinks in multiple 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 Hot Potatoes" means the words set to the music of Hot Potatoes, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Kinks. 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 Hot Potatoes and the lyrics to Hot Potatoes are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Kinks who came here looking just for the lyrics to Hot Potatoes, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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