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Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley

Released by Robert Palmer in 1974
From the Album: Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley |

This version of Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley was released by Robert Palmer in 1974.

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Sneakin’ sally through the alley
Sneakin’ sally through the alley
Sneakin’ sally through the alley
Trying to keep her out of sight
Sneakin’ sally through the alley
When up pops the wife

I said, ah I can’t find nothing wrong with being friends cos sometimes
She lets me use the car
She said if you can’t find nothing wrong with your mind
You’d better find something wrong with her, her
So I began to explain ah that it wasn’t just ah what she thought
I’d better find something to do with my time
The fact is I’ve just been caught

Sneakin’ sally through the alley
Sneakin’ sally through the alley
Trying to get away clean
Sneakin’ sally through the alley
When up pops the queen

Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk, catching myself in lies
Catching myself in lies
Mama just looked at me as if I was, ah, crazy
And didn’t even bat an eye
So I began to try to explain, ah that it just wasn’t what she thought
I’d better find something to do with my time
The fact is ah just been caught, just been caught,
Sneakin, sneakin, sneakin,

Trying to talk doubletalk, get myself in trouble talk
Catching myself in lies, catching myself in lies
Mama just looked at me as if I was crazy
She didn’t even bat an eye

Sneakin’ sally through the alley with sally
Sneakin’ sally through the alley with sally
Sneakin sally through the alley
Sneakin sally through the alley
Sneakin sally through the alley


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About Lyrics and Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley by Robert Palmer

When you decide to study the lyrics to Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Robert Palmer. Some of the lyrics to Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Robert Palmer and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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