Lyrics to
Mardi Gras Day

This version of Mardi Gras Day was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1973.

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The big bass drum led the big parade
All on a Mardi Gras Day
The trombone was playing the tailgate song
All on a Mardi Gras Day
The bugler came down playing a bugle call
All on a Mardi Gras Day
And all that you could hear the people say
was, Oh Bah Lea

Everybody now comes .. (in line?)
All on a Mardi Gras Day
… are doing the second line
All on a Mardi Gras Day
…
All on a Mardi Gras Day
And all we’re gonna say all night and day
is, Oh Bah Lea

The world danced down to St. Andrews Street
All on a Mardi Gras Day
From Chapitulla south to Magnolia Street
All on a Mardi Gras Day
I (espied/spied) the Injuns and …
All on a Mardi Gras Day
And all that you could hear was the people saying
Oh Bah Lea
Black Eagles band plays … Fee-Nah-Nay
All on a Mardi Gras Day
And all that you could hear was the people saying
Oh Bah Lea

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band has released many songs over the years besides Mardi Gras Day. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Glorified Magnified, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Messin', Solar Fire, The Good Earth, Nightingales & Bombers, The Roaring Silence, Watch, Angel Station, Chance, Somewhere In Afrika, Criminal Tango, Masque, Soft Vengeance, and 2006. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

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About Lyrics and Mardi Gras Day by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

The lyrics for Mardi Gras Day are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Mardi Gras Day 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 Mardi Gras Day - Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 Mardi Gras Day by Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 Mardi Gras Day" means the words set to the music of Mardi Gras Day, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. 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 Mardi Gras Day and the lyrics to Mardi Gras Day are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Manfred Mann's Earth Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Mardi Gras Day, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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