Lyrics to
Ko Ko Blue

This version of Ko Ko Blue was released by Zz Top in 1972.

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One, two, whatcha gonna do?
Can you come and see me tonight?
Black, white, feel alright
if you could in broad daylight.

If I could get to see her
you know I’d try to please her,
oh my Ko Ko.
Don’t try to ask me why,
she set my soul on fire,
oh my Ko Ko Blue,
oh my Ko Ko Blue.

You’re hot, the cold, I’m rollin’ low,
jukin’ down to twelve midnight
on ice cream, you know what I mean.
I think I got flavor you’ll like.

If I could get to see her
you know I’d try to please her,
oh my Ko Ko.
Don’t try to ask me why,
she set my soul on fire,
oh my Ko Ko Blue,
oh my Ko Ko Blue.

Hillbilly Willy, he’s quite a guy
from eatin’ some of Ko Ko’s pie.
She’s nice if you ask her twice.
Ask him and he’ll testify.

If I could get to see her
you know I’d try to please her,
oh my Ko Ko.
Don’t try to ask me why,
she set my soul on fire,
oh my Ko Ko Blue,
oh my Ko Ko Blue.

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Zz Top has released many songs over the years besides Ko Ko Blue. Zz Top released songs from 1971 to 2003 spanning across albums like ZZ Top's First Album, Rio Grande Mud, Tres Hombres, Fandango!, Tejas, Deguello, El Loco, Eliminator, Afterburner, Recycler, Antenna, Rhythmeen, XXX, and Mescalero. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Zz Top.

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About Lyrics and Ko Ko Blue by Zz Top

The lyrics to Ko Ko Blue are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Zz Top used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to Ko Ko Blue have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Zz Top 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 Ko Ko Blue by Zz Top. 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 Ko Ko Blue" means the words set to the music of Ko Ko Blue, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Zz Top. 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 Ko Ko Blue and the lyrics to Ko Ko Blue are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Zz Top who came here looking just for the lyrics to Ko Ko Blue, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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