Lyrics to
Mamaloi

Released by The Doobie Brothers in 1972
From the Album: Toulouse Street |

This version of Mamaloi was released by The Doobie Brothers in 1972.

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Layin’ back and sittin’ in the sunshine
Hot wind, I drink me little wine
Straw hat down across my eyes
Lettin’ the world go by
Music, it start my toes a tappin’
Drum beat, it set my hands a clappin’
Rum wine, it get my head a spinnin’
Turnin’ around and ’round
Caribbean current, please take me
I hear you callin’ me home
Got to get back to Jamaica
I want no more to roam
Caribbean current, please take me
I hear you callin’ me home
Got to get back to Jamaica

Gypsy, she say I got the fever
I don’t know whether to believe her
But when the wind blow from the sea
My soul start to fly away
She give me charm that will protect me
Necklace with stone from far across the sea
But island magic much too strong
It won’t let me go this time

Caribbean current, please take me
I hear you callin’ me home
Got to get back to Jamaica
I want no more to roam
Caribbean current, please take me
I hear you callin’ me home
Got to get back to Jamaica

Caribbean current, please take me
I hear you callin’ me home
Got to get back to Jamaica
I want no more to roam
Caribbean current, please take me
I hear you callin’ me home
Got to get back to Jamaica


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When you decide to study the lyrics to Mamaloi, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by The Doobie Brothers. Some of the lyrics to Mamaloi have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Doobie Brothers and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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