Lyrics to
Little Rachel

This version of Little Rachel was released by Eric Clapton in 1975.

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You don’t need no high I.Q.
To get right down and sing the blues.
If you’re down, here’s what to do;
Me and my guitar will sing for you.

Oh, little Rachel, oh.
Oh, little Rachel, oh.
Oh, little Rachel, oh.
Oh, little Rachel, oh.

I got a box and an old whisk broom.
We gonna rock around the room.
When my guitar plays this tune,
We gonna dance to the light of the moon.

What you feel, that ain’t no jive.
The get down sound makes you feel alive.

Push it, little Rachel, push it.
Push it, little Rachel, push it.

Pull it, little Rachel, pull it.
Pull it, little Rachel, pull it.

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About Lyrics and Little Rachel by Eric Clapton

When you decide to study the lyrics to Little Rachel, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Eric Clapton. Some of the lyrics to Little Rachel have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Eric Clapton and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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