Lyrics to
Sunday’s Best

Released by Elvis Costello in 1979
From the Album: Armed Forces |

This version of Sunday’S Best was released by Elvis Costello in 1979.

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Times are tough for English babies
Send the army and the navy
Beat up strangers who talk funny
Take their greasy foreign money
Skin shop, red leather, hot line
Be prepared for the engaged sign
Bridal books, engagement rings
And other wicked little things

Standing in your socks and vest
Better get it off your chest
Every day is just like the rest
But Sunday’s best

Stylish slacks to suit your pocket
Back supports and picture lockets
Sleepy towns and sleeper trains
To the dogs and down the drains
Major roads and ladies smalls
Hearts of oak and long trunk calls
Continental interference
At death’s door with life insurance

Sunday’s best, Sunday’s finest
When your money’s in the minus
And you suffer from your shyness
You can listen to us whiners

Don’t look now under the bed
An arm, a leg and a severed head
Read about the private lives
The songs of praise, the readers’ wives
Listen to the decent people
Though you treat them just like sheep
Put them all in boots and khaki
Blame it all upon the darkies

Sunday’s best


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Elvis Costello has released many songs over the years besides Sunday’S Best. Elvis Costello released songs from 1977 to 2004 spanning across albums like My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces, Get Happy!!, Trust, Almost Blue, Imperial Bedroom, Punch The Clock, Goodbye Cruel World, Blood And Chocolate, King Of America, Spike, Mighty Like A Rose, The Juliet Letters, Brutal Youth, Kojak Variety, Deep Dead Blue, All This Useless Beauty, Painted From Memory, For The Stars, When I Was Cruel, North, and The Delivery Man. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Elvis Costello.

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About Lyrics and Sunday’S Best by Elvis Costello

The lyrics to Sunday’S Best are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Elvis Costello in 1979. Elements of the lyrics to Sunday’S Best are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Elvis Costello and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Sunday’S Best back when it was created.

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Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Sunday’S Best by Elvis Costello in a number of ways. 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 Sunday’S Best" means the words set to the music of Sunday’S Best, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Elvis Costello. 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 Sunday’S Best and the lyrics to Sunday’S Best are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Elvis Costello who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sunday’S Best, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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