Lyrics to
Main Street Saturday Night

This version of Main Street Saturday Night was released by Carole King in 1978.

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See them drivin’ by – look at them fancy wheels
Headlights winkin’ checkin’ each other out
The Great American Pastime is still the automobile
Cruisin’ on the white line
Is the only way to make time

Down on Main Street Saturday night
Everybody thinks they’re so cool
On Main Street
Saturday night
Don’t you mess with him (her), Daddy, he’s (she’s) nobody’s fool

Look at the blonde haired beauties, givin’ it all they got
Maybe if you hit on one, you might luck out
Some of them are foxy – some of them are not
but all of them will get down
If the right thing comes around

Here comes Little Willie – higher than a kite
He’s been doin’ some heavy duty hangin’ out
If Willie’s got a line on some of the best – it’s got to be
Dynamite
You know you can trust him
If the Law don’t bust him

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides Main Street Saturday Night. Carole King released songs from 1968 to 2005 spanning across albums like Now That Everything's Been Said, Writer, Tapestry, Music, Rhymes & Reasons, Fantasy, Wrap Around Joy, Really Rosie, Thoroughbred, Simple Things, Welcome Home, Touch The Sky, Pearls: Songs Of Goffin And King, One To One, Speeding Time, City Streets, Colour Of Your Dreams, Love Makes The World, and The Living Room Tour. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carole King.

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The lyrics to Main Street Saturday Night are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Carole King in 1978. Elements of the lyrics to Main Street Saturday Night are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Carole King and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Main Street Saturday Night back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Main Street Saturday Night by Carole King in a number of 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 Main Street Saturday Night" means the words set to the music of Main Street Saturday Night, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carole King. 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 Main Street Saturday Night and the lyrics to Main Street Saturday Night are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carole King who came here looking just for the lyrics to Main Street 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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