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Nellie Takes Her Bow

This version of Nellie Takes Her Bow was released by Electric Light Orchestra (Elo) in 1971.

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Who thanked the Lord for the clothes
that she wore and mended,
Nellie with the big old fashioned eyes
Who won the heart of a crowd
tore apart, took a bow,
Nellie there’s a different world backstage

I see the flood lights burning
I hear the band play on
Now Nellie takes her bow

She said she really could not stay
She had a brand new play to play
And so she paints her face and smiles
And she’ll be someone else in a while

Just a lonely girl who could not face a broken world,
And so she acts out all her dreams and wishes that’s how it had been
But when the audience is near, it seems as though she doesn’t even care.

Nellie just sent me a line to tell me she was doing fine
She got the lead and on Broadway, and now they’re digging her today
And as she turns the final page, living
someone’s life upon the stage

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

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