Lyrics to
L.A. Girls

This version of L.a. Girls was released by Nazareth in 1976.

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Two bucks an hour
You can hire a car
You can go most anywhere
That depends on who you are
You can be your own boss
Takin’ your own time
The sun shines all the time
California girls look fine
You can truck on down the strip any time of night
Pull an L.A. Lady to treat you right
Stay home call her on the phone
Sayin’ come on over baby I hate to be alone
L.A. Girls in the sunshine
L.A. Girls in the rain
I wanna tell ya, gonna go back again
I’m gonna go back again
Every one’s in movies
And every one’s a star
But most of them are fillin’ in time
Workin’ in some bar
They sure don’t live in Bellaire
Like they planned to be
Their names ain’t in the sidewalk
For everyone to see
But you can truck on down the strip any night
Pull an L.A. Lady to treat you right
Stay home call her on the phone
Sayin’ come on over baby I hate to be alone
L.A. Girls in the sunshine
L.A. Girls in the rain
I wanna tell ya, gonna go back again
I’m gonna go back again
Word gets ’round the band’s in town
They’re bustlin’ ’round the hall
Readin’ last months Rolling Stone
Talkin’ Rock and Roll
They got all the answers
For everything you say
And even if you pass them by
They gonna tell you anyway
But you can truck on down the strip any time of night
Pull an L.A. Lady’s gonna treat you right
Stay home call one on the phone
Sayin’ come on over baby I hate to be alone
L.A. Girls in the sunshine
L.A. Girls in the rain
I wanna tell ya, gonna go back again
I’m gonna go back there again

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About Lyrics and L.a. Girls by Nazareth

The lyrics for L.a. Girls are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Nazareth. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to L.a. Girls have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for L.a. Girls - Nazareth and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to L.a. Girls by Nazareth in multiple ways. 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 L.a. Girls" means the words set to the music of L.a. Girls, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Nazareth. 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 L.a. Girls and the lyrics to L.a. Girls are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Nazareth who came here looking just for the lyrics to L.a. Girls, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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