Lyrics to
I Wanna Pick You Up

This version of I Wanna Pick You Up was released by Beach Boys in 1977.

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I love to pick you up
‘Cause you’re still a baby to me
Cribs and cradles and bottles and toys
Are part of the joys they bring

I wanna wash your face
And change your clothes and button your shoes
Walk you around and wrestle with you
Then I’m gonna make you sing

In the mornin’ I could wake you up
Feed you breakfast from a little cup

I want to pick you up
Rock you back and forth and make you smile
I want to hold you close for a while

I wanna tickle your feet
Drop you in your little tub
Wash your body and shampoo your hair
Be careful not to sting your eyes

When it’s night I’ll put you in your bed
And I’ll bend and kiss ya on your head

I want to pick you up
Rock you back and forth and make you smile
I want to hold you close for a while

Pat pat pat pat pat her on her butt butt
She’s going to sleep be quiet
Pat pat pat pat pat her on her butt
She’s going to sleep
Little baby go to sleep

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When you decide to study the lyrics to I Wanna Pick You Up, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Beach Boys. Some of the lyrics to I Wanna Pick You Up have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Beach Boys and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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