Lyrics to
Hurry On Down

This version of Hurry On Down was released by Bette Midler in 1977.

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Hurry on down to my house, honey,
ain’t nobody home but me.
Hurry on down to my house, baby.
Oh, I’m blue as I can be.
I love you. You love me.
A-hurry through the alley
so the neighbors don’t see.
Hurry on down to my house, honey,
ain’t nobody home but me. Oooh.

Hurry on down to my house, baby,
ain’t nobody home but me.
Hurry on down to my house, baby.
I’m blue as I can be.

Oh, blue when the clock a-went
tick-tock-tick.
Ooh, c’mon, honey, ah-quick, quick, quick.
Awww, hurry on down to my house, baby,
ain’t nobody home but me.

Say, hurry, hurry, a-nobody’s home.
Hurry on down, baby,
I’m blue as I can be.
Oh, please come down
just as soon as you can.
If you don’t come down,
I got to call Sam!
You know the man is crazy about me.
Ain’t nobody home but me . . . ow!

“Well, what’s goin’ on with the three of yous?
C’mon, c’mon, make it snappy.
C’mon, c’mon, work out, work out!
Go, babe, get down, get down!
Oh, lord! Nobody’s home!”

Say, hurry on down to my house, baby,
ain’t nobody home.
A-haul it down, drag it down,
any way to get it down.
I’m blue as I can be.
Ashes-to-ashes. Dust-to-dust.
C’mon, honey, you must, you must!
Hurry on down to my house, baby,
ain’t nobody home but me.

Hurry, hurry. A-nobody’s home.
Haul it down and drag it down.
You know I can’t stand to be alone.
Operator, get me hillside, 409.
A-don’t stop ringin’
’til you get that baby’s line!
He’s gonna haul it down!
Ain’t nobody home but, you believe it,
there’s nobody home but me! Wo!

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Hurry On Down, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Bette Midler. Some of the lyrics to Hurry On Down have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bette Midler and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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