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Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day

This version of Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day was released by Michael Jackson in 1972.

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Your precious sweetheart, she’s so faithful
She’s so true, oh yeah
Her dreams are tumblin’
Her world is crumblin’
Because of you, uh uh
One day you’ll hurt her just once too much
And when you finally lose your tender touch

Shoo-be-doo-be-doo-be-doo-da-day
Her feet may wander, her heart may stray
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You gonna send your baby straight to me

I’m gonna give her all the lovin’
Within my heart, oh yeah
I’m gonna patch up every single little dream
You torn apart, understand me now?
And when she tells you she’s cried her last tear
Heaven knows I’m gonna be somewhere near

Shoo-be-doo-be-doo-be-doo-da-day
Her feet may wander, her heart may stray
Shoo-be-doo-be-doo-be-doo-da-day
You gonna send your baby straight to me

Oh yeah-yeah, you better
You better listen to me, yeah

Heartaches are callin’ and tears are fallin’
Because of you, oh yeah
And when you’re gone she’ll know
I’m the one to go to her rescue
Maybe you didn’t know that baby
You’re gonna leave her one too many times
And when you come back that
Girl’s gonna be mine, all mine

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Michael Jackson. Some of the lyrics to Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Michael Jackson and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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