Lyrics to
Swingtown

This version of Swingtown was released by The Steve Miller Band in 1977.

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Ooo oooohhhh
Ooo oooohhhh
Come on and dance, come on and dance
Let’s make some romance
You know the night is fallin’
And the music’s callin’
And we’ve got to get down to Swingtown

We’ve been workin’ so hard
We’ve been workin’ so hard
Come on baby
Come on baby let’s dance
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on

Ooo oooohhhh
Ooo oooohhhh
Come on and dance, come on and dance
We may not get another chance
You know the night is fallin’
And the music’s callin’
And we’ve got to get down to Swingtown

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About Lyrics and Swingtown by The Steve Miller Band

The lyrics for Swingtown are defined as the words making up the song released by The Steve Miller Band in 1977. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Swingtown have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only The Steve Miller Band 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 Swingtown by The Steve Miller Band 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 Swingtown" means the words set to the music of Swingtown, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Steve Miller Band. 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 Swingtown and the lyrics to Swingtown are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Steve Miller Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Swingtown, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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