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Royal Orleans

This version of Royal Orleans was released by Led Zeppelin in 1976.

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One time love, take care how you use it
Try to make it last all night, And if you take your pick
Be careful how you choose it, Sometimes its hard to feel it bite
Feel it bite.

A man I know, went down to Louisiana,
had himself a bad, bad fight
And when the sun peeked through
John Cameron with Suzanna,
He kissed the whiskers, left & right
Whiskers!

Now, now, now, fright subsides
Out at a hotel in the quarter, our friends check in to pass the night
Now love gets hot, but fire preceded water
Poor whiskers set the room alight.
Whiskers!

Down on Bourbon street, You know it’s right
You can see my friend, they run around all through the night
Most everywhere, Until the closet’s bare
Run for the razor, Doin’ up my hair

New Orleans queens, Sure know how to schmooze it
Maybe for some that seems alright
When I step out, strut down with my sugar
She’d best not talk like Barry White!

One time love, take care how you use it
Try to make it last all night, And if you take your pick
Be careful how you choose it, Sometimes its hard to feel it bite
Feel it bite.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Royal Orleans, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Led Zeppelin. Some of the lyrics to Royal Orleans have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Led Zeppelin and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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