Lyrics to
Shady Lady

This version of Shady Lady was released by Status Quo in 1979.

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Run your fingers thru my hair sweet darling
Run your fingers thru my hair
I want you when you never there sweet darling
Need you but I could not care

You got long black hair on your legs
And I like them smooth
You don’t show me you care
You won’t even move
That’s why I call you shady lady

I wish I hadn’t turn my head that morning
Wish I hadn’t turned my head
Or listened to the things you said that morning
Listened to the things you said

I get away where nobody goes
And she finds me there
She won’t leave me alone
She don’t even care
That’s why I call here shady lady, shady lady

They say, I say
You gotta lay it down the line
So get away-way I say
If you’re only playing with my time
I gotta keep you off of my back
Cos you’re making me feel so bad
I gotta get along, get along, get along
Without you now

Run your fingers thru my hair sweet darling
Run your fingers thru my hair
I want you when you never there sweet darling
Need you but I could not care

I get away where nobody goes
And she finds me there
She won’t leave me alone
She won’t even care
That’s why I call her shady lady, shady lady

I gotta get along, get along, get along
Without you now
I gotta get along, get along, get along
Without you now
I gotta get along, get along, get along
Without you now

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About Lyrics and Shady Lady by Status Quo

The lyrics for Shady Lady are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Status Quo. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Shady Lady have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Shady Lady - Status Quo and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Shady Lady by Status Quo in multiple ways. 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 Shady Lady" means the words set to the music of Shady Lady, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Status Quo. 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 Shady Lady and the lyrics to Shady Lady are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Status Quo who came here looking just for the lyrics to Shady Lady, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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