Lyrics to
London Girl

This version of London Girl was released by The Jam in 1977.

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Do you know what you’re looking for?
Streets of gold, fame and fortune?
You didn’t fancy working in a factory
But your mum and dad didn’t agree

You slept on Waterloo station at first
But now you’ve moved to a posher squat
You wonder where your next meal will come from
Still it’s better than living at home

You’re looking tired ’cause it’s been three weeks
Since you changed your clothes or washed your feet
But you’re learning fast all the time
How to cadge cigarettes and pills

I don’t condemn what you done
I know what it is to be young
You’re only searching for today
To see the answers about yesterday
And I hope you find

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About Lyrics and London Girl by The Jam

The lyrics for London Girl are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by The Jam. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to London Girl 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 London Girl - The Jam 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 London Girl by The Jam 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 London Girl" means the words set to the music of London Girl, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Jam. 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 London Girl and the lyrics to London Girl are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Jam who came here looking just for the lyrics to London Girl, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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