Lyrics to
Street Boogie

This version of Street Boogie was released by Elton John in 1979.

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Street guys, walking, dancing
Sidewalk, music, hot thing
They got their boxes tuned into their favorite show
As they truck on down the road
Is that the radio
Yes that’s the radio
Let it go, let it go, let it go

Street boogie got a hold on me
Street boogie gonna set me free
Street boogie keep a hold on me
It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright with me

Street boogie, it’s the city beat
Street boogie, on the boogie street
Street boogie, yeah and that’s for me
Street boogie, street boogie, street boogie, street boogie

Traffic, skater, rolling
Sharing, music, sure thing
He got his shoulder holster turned a way up loud
As he wheels his way around
Is that the radio
Yes that’s the radio
Catch the sound, catch the sound, catch the sound

Boogie, street boogie
Boogie, street boogie

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About Lyrics and Street Boogie by Elton John

When you decide to study the lyrics to Street Boogie, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Elton John. Some of the lyrics to Street Boogie 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 Street Boogie 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 Street Boogie" means the words set to the music of Street Boogie, 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 Street Boogie and the lyrics to Street Boogie 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 Street Boogie, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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