Lyrics to
Tumbling Dice

This version of Tumbling Dice was released by Linda Ronstadt in 1977.

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People try to rape me
Always think I’m crazy
Make me burn the candle right down
Baby I can’t stay
I don’t need your jewels in my frown

Now all you women are low-down gamblers
Cheating like I don’t know how
Baby I go crazy
There’s fever in the funkhouse now

Well this low-down bitching
Got my poor feet a-itching
Can’t you see the deuce is still wild
Baby get it straight
You got to roll me
And call me the tumbling dice

Always in a hurry
Never stop to worry
Can’t see the time passing by
Honey got no money
I’m sixes and sevens and nines

Well hey now baby I’m the rank outsider
You can be my partner in crime
Baby get it straight
You got to roll me
Call me the tumbling dice

I said my my my
I’m the lone crapshooter
Playing the field every night
Baby get it straight
You got to roll me
Call me the tumbling dice

You got to roll me
Babe you got to roll me
Babe you got to roll me
Oh oh oh you got to roll me
Woo hoo hoo you got to roll me
Woah babe you got to roll me
Baby babe you got to roll me

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About Lyrics and Tumbling Dice by Linda Ronstadt

The lyrics for Tumbling Dice are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Linda Ronstadt. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Tumbling Dice 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 Tumbling Dice - Linda Ronstadt 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 Tumbling Dice by Linda Ronstadt 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 Tumbling Dice" means the words set to the music of Tumbling Dice, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Linda Ronstadt. 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 Tumbling Dice and the lyrics to Tumbling Dice are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Linda Ronstadt who came here looking just for the lyrics to Tumbling Dice, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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