Lyrics to
Pretty Good

This version of Pretty Good was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1973.

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I met a girl from Venus
And her insides were made of gold
Well, she did what she did and said “How was it, kid?”
She was politely told
“Pretty good, not bad, I can’t complain
But actually everything is just about the same.”

I heard Allah and Buddha
Were singing at the Saviour’s feast
And up in the sky an Arabian rabbi
Fed Quaker oats to a priest
Pretty good, not bad, they can’t complain
‘Cause actually all them gods are just about the same

Moonlight makes me dizzy
Sunlight makes me clean
Your light is the sweetest thing
That this boy has ever seen

Molly went to Arkansas
She got raped by Dobbin’s dog
Well, she was doing good till she went in the wood
And got pinned up against a log
Pretty good, not bad, she can’t complain
‘Cause actually all them dogs are just about the same

I got a friend in Fremont
And he sells used cars, you know
Well he calls me up twice a year
Just to ask me how’d it go
Pretty good, not bad, I can’t complain
Actually everything is just about the same

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band has released many songs over the years besides Pretty Good. 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 Pretty Good by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

When you decide to study the lyrics to Pretty Good, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Some of the lyrics to Pretty Good 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 Pretty Good 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 Pretty Good" means the words set to the music of Pretty Good, 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 Pretty Good and the lyrics to Pretty Good 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 Pretty Good, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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