Lyrics to
Take Your Hands Out Of My Pocket

This version of Take Your Hands Out Of My Pocket was released by Van Morrison in 1974.

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Take your hands outta my pocket, baby
I ain’t got nothin’ let to loan to you
Take your hands outta my pocket
I ain’t got nothin’ left to loan to you
If you don’t take your hand out
I’m gonna call the police on you

I got hip to your record
The first thirty-five seconds I got in town
I got hip, hip to your record
The first thirty-five seconds that I got in town
If you don’t take your fingers off my wallet
I believe the Man is gonna take you down
Whoa, yeah
Play the blues, n’ blow

I don’t mean anybody no harm
I just want what belong to me
I don’t mean no one no harm, no-no
I just want, just want what belong to me

So, ya take your hand outta my pocket, hu!
I’ll ask the judge to set you free.
Oh yeah

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Van Morrison has released many songs over the years besides Take Your Hands Out Of My Pocket. Van Morrison released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Blowin' Your Mind!, Astral Weeks, Moondance, His Band And The Street Choir, Tupelo Honey, Saint Dominic's Preview, Hard Nose The Highway, It's Too Late To Stop Now, Veedon Fleece, A Period Of Transition, Wavelength, Into The Music, Common One, Beautiful Vision, Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart, A Sense Of Wonder, No Guru, No Method, No Teacher, Poetic Champions Compose, Irish Heartbeat, Avalon Sunset, Enlightenment, Hymns To The Silence, Too Long In Exile, Days Like This, How Long Has This Been Going On, Tell Me Something: The Songs Of Mose Allison, The Healing Game, The Philosopher's Stone, Back On Top, The Skiffle Sessions - Live In Belfast, You Win Again, Down The Road, What's Wrong With This Picture?, and Magic Time. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Van Morrison.

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

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