Lyrics to
Martha’s Madman

This version of Martha’S Madman was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1978.

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Martha has a madman
Standing hidden in the shadows
He’s got a long curved Turkish dagger
With a bejewelled handle

He’s tellin’ her the world is full of freaks and geeks and simples and he’s
Hiding like a leprechaun under stones and in the ripples
In the pool of time she thought she knew it – but someone threw a stone into it
Which breaks up the surface and it’s making her nervous and it’s true
What can she do — yes it’s true
What can she do —
Martha yes I guess you’ll have to wait around – another thousand years

Martha’s gettin’ nervous as she wanders through his valley
Where the shadows always frightening
And the whispers tell her stories

He’s tellin’ her the world is full of freaks and geeks and simples and he’s
Hiding like a leprechaun under stones and in the ripples
In the pool of time she thought she knew it – but someone threw a stone into it
Which breaks up the surface and it’s making her nervous and it’s true
What can she do — yes it’s true
What can she do —
Martha yes I guess you’ll have to wait around – another thousand years

(What can she do — yes it’s true
What can she do — yes it’s true
What can she do — yes it’s true…)

Martha yes I guess you’ll have to wait around – another thousand years

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Martha’S Madman, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Some of the lyrics to Martha’S Madman have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Manfred Mann's Earth Band and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Martha’S Madman 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 Martha’S Madman" means the words set to the music of Martha’S Madman, 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 Martha’S Madman and the lyrics to Martha’S Madman 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 Martha’S Madman, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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