Lyrics to
Mongrel Too

Released by Bob Seger in 1970
From the Album: Mongrel |

This version of Mongrel Too was released by Bob Seger in 1970.

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Here come the mountain, Here come the hill
Here come the valley and the Shoreline still
I know ’em well, know well
Mongrel, on the hard sell
With a , hot assed, inkwell
Lord, But I, I can’t leave with the blues
Through endless days, and endless nights
Spare my creator, scream for my rights
in the wishing well
Mongrel on the Hard sell, with a ,
Hot assed, Inkwell
But I won’t leave you with the blues no
Come down to (Wah-doo-day)
I’ll buy you out
Gonna make you shake it Lord gonna make you shout
Gonna burn you gonna make you swell
Mongrel on a hard sell
with a hot assed inkwell Lord
But I can’t leave you with the blues no
No no


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Bob Seger has released many songs over the years besides Mongrel Too. Bob Seger released songs from 1969 to 2006 spanning across albums like Ramblin' Gamblin' Man, Noah, Mongrel, Brand New Morning, Smokin' O.P.'s, Back In '72, Seven, Beautiful Loser, Night Moves, Live Bullet, Stranger In Town, Against The Wind, Nine Tonight, The Distance, Like A Rock, The Fire Inside, Greatest Hits, It's A Mystery, Greatest Hits 2, and Face The Promise. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bob Seger.

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The lyrics for Mongrel Too are defined as the words making up the song released by Bob Seger in 1970. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Mongrel Too have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Bob Seger and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

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Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Mongrel Too by Bob Seger if you think through it. 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 Mongrel Too" means the words set to the music of Mongrel Too, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bob Seger. 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 Mongrel Too and the lyrics to Mongrel Too are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bob Seger who came here looking just for the lyrics to Mongrel Too, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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