Lyrics to
Sleeping On The Sidewalk

This version of Sleeping On The Sidewalk was released by Queen in 1977.

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I was nothin’ but a city boy
My trumpet was my only toy
I’ve been blowin’ my horn
Since I knew I was born
But there ain’t nobody wants to know

I’ve been
Sleepin’ on the sidewalk
Rollin’ down the road
I may get hungry
But I sure don’t want to go home

So round the corner comes a limousine
And the biggest grin I’ve ever seen
Come on sonny won’t you sign
Right along the dotted line
What you sayin’ Are you playin’
Sure you don’t mean me?

Sleepin’ on the sidewalk
Rollin’ down the road
I may get hungry
But I sure don’t wanna go home

(tell you what happened. . .)

They took me to a room without a table
They said “blow your trumpet into here”
I played around as well as I was able
And soon we had the record of the year

I was a legend all through the land
I was blowin’ to a million fans
Nothin’ was a-missin’
All the people want to listen
You’d have thought I was a happy man

And I was
Sleepin’ like a princess
Never touch the road
I don’t get hungry
And I sure don’t want to go home
(have to have some fun. . .)

Now they tell me that I ain’t so fashionable
An’ I owe the man a million bucks a year
So I told ’em where to stick the fancy label
It’s just me and the road from here

Back to playin’ and layin’
I’m back on the game

Sleepin’ on the sidewalk
Rollin’ down the road
I sure get hungry and I
Sure do wanna go home
(Yeah)

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About Lyrics and Sleeping On The Sidewalk by Queen

The lyrics for Sleeping On The Sidewalk are defined as the words making up the song released by Queen in 1977. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Sleeping On The Sidewalk have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Queen and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Sleeping On The Sidewalk by Queen if you think through it. 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 Sleeping On The Sidewalk" means the words set to the music of Sleeping On The Sidewalk, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Queen. 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 Sleeping On The Sidewalk and the lyrics to Sleeping On The Sidewalk are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Queen who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sleeping On The Sidewalk, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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