Lyrics to
Jeraboah

This version of Jeraboah was released by Steppenwolf in 1974.

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When Jeraboah was just a child
She used to drive the milkman wild
She’d steal his bottles to pay the rent
But I know that ain’t where it went

Jeraboah, you’re a fine lookin’ lady
You can get what you want with a smile
Goin ’round makin’ everyone crazy
With the love of a backstreet child.

Those years of livin’ out in the streets
Make that Jerabo’ so sweet
That even when she’d steal your pay
You’d just smile and have to say

Now that city has changed a lot
But some folks still just ain’t forgot
How Jeraboah would laugh and play
Make the smile and have to say

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About Lyrics and Jeraboah by Steppenwolf

The lyrics to Jeraboah are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Steppenwolf used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Jeraboah have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Steppenwolf and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Jeraboah by Steppenwolf. 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 Jeraboah" means the words set to the music of Jeraboah, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Steppenwolf. 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 Jeraboah and the lyrics to Jeraboah are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Steppenwolf who came here looking just for the lyrics to Jeraboah, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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