Lyrics to
My Simple Humble Neighborhood

This version of My Simple Humble Neighborhood was released by Carole King in 1975.

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Here’s where it all began
Here’s where I heard that beat
Here’s where I tapped that tap
With my natural rhythm feet
In my simple humble neighborhood
On my simple humble street

Here’s where the dreams I had
Were crowded on a stoop
Were pecked and pushed and hustled
Just like chickens in a coop
Life wasn’t always neat
In my simple humble neighborhood
On my simple humble street

Here’s where I learned the rules
Of Rosie’s way
Of how to play
A magic game
That changed the same
Old sheepy bleat
In my simple humble neighborhood
On my simple humble street

Here’s where I made up folks
Who came to visit me
Not just ordinary folks
Coming unexpectedly

TALENT SCOUTS! PRODUCERS! DIRECTORS!
GLAMOUR BOYS!

In other words
THE HOY-POLOYS!
THE GRAND ELITE!

To make them green with envy
In my simple humble neighborhood
On my simple humble street

Here’s where it all began
Here’s where I heard that tune
Here’s where I sang of sailing
In a carnival balloon
Life was so darn sweet
In my simple humble neighborhood
On my simple humble street

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides My Simple Humble Neighborhood. 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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About Lyrics and My Simple Humble Neighborhood by Carole King

When you decide to study the lyrics to My Simple Humble Neighborhood, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Carole King. Some of the lyrics to My Simple Humble Neighborhood have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Carole King and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to My Simple Humble Neighborhood 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 My Simple Humble Neighborhood" means the words set to the music of My Simple Humble Neighborhood, 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 My Simple Humble Neighborhood and the lyrics to My Simple Humble Neighborhood 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 My Simple Humble Neighborhood, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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