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Twistin’ The Night Away

This version of Twistin’ The Night Away was released by Rod Stewart in 1972.

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Let me tell you about a place, somewhere up in New York way
where the people are so gay, twistin’ the night away
Here they have a lot of fun, puttin’ trouble on the run
Oh man you’ll find the old and young twistin’ the night away

Here’s a man in evening clothes, how he got here I don’t know
but oh man, you ought to see him go, twistin’ the night away
He’s dancing with a chick in slacks, she’s moving up and back
Oh man, there ain’t nothing like twistin’ the night away

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Here’s a fellow in blue jeans, who’s dancing with an older queen
dolled up in her diamond rings, twistin’ the night away
Man you ought to see her go, twistin’ to the rock and roll
Here you’ll find the young and the old twistin’ the night away

They’re twistin’, twistin’, everybody’s doing great
They’re twistin’ man, twistin’, they’re twistin’ the night away
Twistin’, you know they’re twistin’, twistin’ the night away
They’re twistin’, twistin’, man twistin’ the night away

Here they have a lot of fun, puttin’ trouble on the run
Oh man you’ll find young and the old twistin’ the night away
Here’s a man in evening clothes, how he got here I don’t know
I don’t know but man you ought to see him go
Twistin’ the night away

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Rod Stewart has released many songs over the years besides Twistin’ The Night Away. Rod Stewart released songs from 1969 to 2005 spanning across albums like An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down, Gasoline Alley, Every Picture Tells A Story, Never A Dull Moment, Smiler, Atlantic Crossing, A Night On The Town, Foot Loose & Fancy Free, Blondes Have More Fun, Foolish Behavior, Tonight I'm Yours, Body Wishes, Camouflage, Every Beat Of My Heart, Out Of Order, Vagabond Heart, Lead Vocalist, Unplugged... And Seated, A Spanner In The Works, If We Fall In Love Tonight, When We Were The New Boys, Human, It Had To Be You... The Great American Songbook, Stardust...The Great American Songbook: Volume III, and Thanks For The Memory... The Great American Songbook: Volume IV. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Rod Stewart.

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About Lyrics and Twistin’ The Night Away by Rod Stewart

The lyrics for Twistin’ The Night Away are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Rod Stewart. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Twistin’ The Night Away 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 Twistin’ The Night Away - Rod Stewart 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 Twistin’ The Night Away by Rod Stewart 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 Twistin’ The Night Away" means the words set to the music of Twistin’ The Night Away, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rod Stewart. 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 Twistin’ The Night Away and the lyrics to Twistin’ The Night Away are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rod Stewart who came here looking just for the lyrics to Twistin’ The Night Away, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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