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Tie Your Mother Down

This version of Tie Your Mother Down was released by Queen in 1976.

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Get your party gown
Get your pigtail down
Get your heart beatin’ baby
Got my timin’ right
Got my act all tight
It’s gotta be tonight my little
Schoolbabe

Your momma says you don’t
And your Daddy says you won’t
And I’m boilin’ up inside
Ain’t no way I’m gonna lose out this time

Tie your Mother down
Tie your Mother down
Lock your Daddy out of doors
I don’t need him nosing around
Tie your Mother down
Tie your Mother down
Give me all your love tonight

You’re such a dirty louse
Go get outta my house
That’s all I ever get from your
Family ties, in fact I don’t think I ever heard
A single little civil word
from those guys
But you know I don’t give a light
I’m gonna make out all right
I’ve got a sweetheart hand
To put a stop to all that
Grousin’ an’ snipin’

Tie your Mother down
Tie your Mother down
Take your little brother swimmin’
With a brick (that’s all right)
Tie your Mother down,
Tie your Mother down
Or you ain’t no friend of mine

Your momma and your Daddy gonna
Plague me til I die
Why can’t they understand I’m just a
Peace lovin’ guy
Tie your Mother down
Tie your Mother down. . .etc etc. . .

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The lyrics for Tie Your Mother Down are defined as the words making up the song released by Queen in 1976. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Tie Your Mother Down have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Queen 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 Tie Your Mother Down by Queen 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 Tie Your Mother Down" means the words set to the music of Tie Your Mother Down, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Queen. 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 Tie Your Mother Down and the lyrics to Tie Your Mother Down are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Queen who came here looking just for the lyrics to Tie Your Mother Down, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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