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I Been Workin’ On You

This version of I Been Workin’ On You was released by The Doobie Brothers in 1975.

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Mama been workin’, so hard
Keep on workin’ mama but you don’t get far
But baby I know, baby you’re blind
And I’ll keep a-risin’ mama, just to show you’re mine
And I keep workin’ on you
Well I been watchin’ you grow
And baby you got what it takes to let me know
Sure as the devil, rise in the blind
It’s gonna be nasty and it’s gonna be mine
I been workin’ on you

Keep on movin’ pretty baby, I feel you in my heart
Gentle on me movin’ honey, honey, but you can’t be far but you
Keep on with me, true to form
I can’t ask for more now but your
Soul star is born

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

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