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Long Legged Linda

This version of Long Legged Linda was released by Status Quo in 1978.

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Well, if you’re ever in Los Angeles and you’ve got time to spare
Take a stroll up Sunset Boulevard, you’ll find the whisky there
Gliding round the tables with wondrous, natural ease
Serving two-star brandy is the body you have to see, all belonging to

Long-legged Linda, she sure was worth the flight
Long-legged Linda is playing the whisky tonight

Oh, should boogie-woogie with Linda, though she dances like a dream
She acts like she’s a thousand but she’s barely sweet sixteen
She re-arranged my brain-cells and took control of me
So if I miss my plain to Jacksonville you can guess where I’ll still be, I’ll be
digging

Long-legged Linda, she sure was worth the flight
Long-legged Linda is playing the whisky tonight

She re-arranged my brain-cells and took control of me
So if I miss my plain to Jacksonville you can guess where I’ll still be, I’ll be
digging

Long-legged Linda, she sure was worth the flight
Long-legged Linda is playing the whisky tonight

Long-legged Linda, she sure was worth the flight
Long-legged Linda is playing the whisky tonight
Long-legged Linda, long-legged Linda
Long-legged Linda, long-legged Linda….

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About Lyrics and Long Legged Linda by Status Quo

The lyrics for Long Legged Linda are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Status Quo. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Long Legged Linda 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 Long Legged Linda - Status Quo 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 Long Legged Linda by Status Quo 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 Long Legged Linda" means the words set to the music of Long Legged Linda, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Status Quo. 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 Long Legged Linda and the lyrics to Long Legged Linda are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Status Quo who came here looking just for the lyrics to Long Legged Linda, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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