Lyrics to
Hum Along And Dance

This version of Hum Along And Dance was released by Jackson 5 in 1973.

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Ain’t no words to this song.
You just dance and hum along.
Ain’t no words to this song.
You just dance and hum along.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Hum Along And Dance, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Jackson 5. Some of the lyrics to Hum Along And Dance have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Jackson 5 and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Hum Along And Dance 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 Hum Along And Dance" means the words set to the music of Hum Along And Dance, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson 5. 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 Hum Along And Dance and the lyrics to Hum Along And Dance are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson 5 who came here looking just for the lyrics to Hum Along And Dance, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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