Lyrics to
Livingston Saturday Night

This version of Livingston Saturday Night was released by Jimmy Buffett in 1978.

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You got your Tony Lama’s on your jeans pressed tight,
You take a few tokes, make you feel all right,
Rockin’ and rollin’ on a Livingston Saturday Night.

Pickup’s washed and you just got paid.
With any luck at all you might even get laid,
‘Cause they’re pickin’ and a-kickin’
on a Livingston Saturday Night.

So won’t you listen to the sound of a hot country band,
Boot heels shufflin’ on the dance floor Sam
Sing a song, play some pong, shoot a little pool,
Hittin’ on the honeys right out of high school.
Yeah, fifteen may get you twenty,
but that’s all right,
“Cause they’re rockin and a rollin’ on a
Livingston Saturday Night

So won’t you listen to the sound of the hot country band,
Boot heels shufflin’ on the dance floor Sam,
Hum a song, play some pong, eat a deviled egg,
Temperature is rising, better pop another keg.

Fifteen may get you twenty, but that’s all right,
‘Cause they’ll be rockin’ and a rollin’ on a
Livingston Saturday Night.

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About Lyrics and Livingston Saturday Night by Jimmy Buffett

The lyrics to Livingston Saturday Night are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Jimmy Buffett used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Livingston Saturday Night have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Jimmy Buffett 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 Livingston Saturday Night by Jimmy Buffett. 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 Livingston Saturday Night" means the words set to the music of Livingston Saturday Night, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jimmy Buffett. 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 Livingston Saturday Night and the lyrics to Livingston Saturday Night are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jimmy Buffett who came here looking just for the lyrics to Livingston Saturday Night, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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