Lyrics to
Red Light Lady

This version of Red Light Lady was released by Nazareth in 1971.

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Down at the house with the red light
She works from seven til dawn
You’ll find her there any time that you like
Some days a week she’ll be on
Down at the house with the red light

I was a boy not to sure of myself
When i was first taken down
Down to the house with the red light
Two miles west of town
I paid my fee and i went on in

Into the house with the red light
Pull up a chair up the stairs
The key was cold and dampened my hand
Opened the door, heard her say
“into my room and set yourself down”

She let us lie on this shiny brass bed
Curtains and flowers in her hair
She played my soul and she shattered my head
Could not believe i was there
Down at the house with the red light

I fell in love with that lady
First love i knew, she gave me
Seven days a week, you can find her
Down ay the house with the red light

I fell in love with that lady

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Red Light Lady, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Nazareth. Some of the lyrics to Red Light Lady have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Nazareth and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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