Lyrics to
Stinker

This version of Stinker was released by Elton John in 1974.

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Say what you will but I’m a stinker
I come crawling up out of my hole
Dirt in my toes, dirt up my nose
I’m a perfect curse to pest control

Seeds and weeds and muddy meals
Crawling around the earth
Down in the ground where the sun don’t pound
I hibernate in English turf

Better believe it, I’m a stinker
Burning vermin stink
Watch me get as high as a heat wave honey
Tell me what you hound dogs think

Set in my styles with a beady eye
I got connections with the underground
Call me a common rodent boy
Sitting here safe and sound

Some mole hill mother sauntered by
Acting like the ace of spades
Don’t give that cutey no reason to shoot me
When I’m living on the eggs she laid

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About Lyrics and Stinker by Elton John

When you decide to study the lyrics to Stinker, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Elton John. Some of the lyrics to Stinker have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Elton John and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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