Lyrics to
Throw Back The Little Ones

This version of Throw Back The Little Ones was released by Steely Dan in 1975.

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Lost in the Barrio I walk like an Injun
So Carlo won’t suspect something’s wrong here
I dance in place
And paint my face
And act like I belong here

Throw back the little ones
And pan-fry the big ones
Use tact, poise and reason
And gently squeeze them

Hot licks and rhetoric
Don’t count much for nothing
Be glad if you can use what you borrow
So I pawn my crown
For a ride uptown
And buy it back tomorrow

Done like a matador I pray for the weekend
And hope the little girls still throw roses
Else I’ll change my bait
And move upstate
Before the season closes

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The lyrics for Throw Back The Little Ones are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Steely Dan. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Throw Back The Little Ones have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Throw Back The Little Ones - Steely Dan and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Throw Back The Little Ones by Steely Dan in multiple 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 Throw Back The Little Ones" means the words set to the music of Throw Back The Little Ones, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Steely Dan. 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 Throw Back The Little Ones and the lyrics to Throw Back The Little Ones are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Steely Dan who came here looking just for the lyrics to Throw Back The Little Ones, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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