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Uptown / Don’t Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby) / Da Doo Run Run

This version of Uptown / Don’T Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby) / Da Doo Run Run was released by Bette Midler in 1973.

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He gets up each morning and he goes downtown
where everyone’s his boss,
and he’s lost in an angry land.
He’s a little man.

But then he comes uptown
each evening to my tentament.
Uptown where folks don’t have to pay much rent.
And when he’s there with me
he can see that he’s everything.
The man is tall, he don’t crawl. He’s a king.

Downtown he’s just one of a million guys.
He don’t get no breaks,
and he takes all they got to give
’cause he’s got to live.

But then he comes uptown
where he can hold his head up high.
And uptown he knows I’m gonna be standing by.
And when I take his hand,
there’s no man who can put him down, down, down.
Oh, the world’s so sweet at his feet when he’s uptown.
Whoa-oo-oh-whoa.
When he’s uptown.
Whoa-oo-whoa-oo-whoa-oh-oh.

Don’t say nothin’ bad about my baby.
Don’t say nothin’ bad about my baby.
Don’t say nothin’ bad about my baby.
Don’t say nothin’ bad about my baby.
Don’t say nothin’ bad about my baby.
Don’t say nothin’ bad about my baby.
Don’t say nothin’ bad about my baby.
Don’t!

Met him on a monday and my heart stood still.
Da doo run run run da doo run run.
Somebody told me that his name was Bill.
Da doo run run run da doo run run.
Whoa, my heart stood still.
Yeah, his name was Bill.
And when he walked me home,
da doo run run run da doo run run.

He knew what he was doin’ when he caught my eye.
Da doo run run run da doo run run.
He looked kind of quiet, but my, oh my.
Da doo run run run da doo run run.
Oh, he caught my eye.
My, my, my, my, oh my.
And when he walked me home,
da doo run run run da doo run run.

Here we go!
Da doo run run run da doo run run.
Da doo run run run da doo run run.
Da doo run run run da doo run run.
Da do run run, hey!

Run-a-run-a-run-a-run-a-run-a-run-a-run.
Run-a-run-a-run-a-run-a-run-a-run-a-run.
Run-a-run-a-run, run-a-run-a-run.
Run-a-run-a-run-a-run-a-run-a-run-a-run.

Run-a-run-a-run, run-a-run-a-run.
Run-a-run-a-run-a-run-a-run-a-run-a-run.
Run-a-run-a-run, run-a-run-a-run.
Run-a-run . . .

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You can understand the lyrics to Uptown / Don’T Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby) / Da Doo Run Run 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 Uptown / Don’T Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby) / Da Doo Run Run" means the words set to the music of Uptown / Don’T Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby) / Da Doo Run Run, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bette Midler. 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 Uptown / Don’T Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby) / Da Doo Run Run and the lyrics to Uptown / Don’T Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby) / Da Doo Run Run are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bette Midler who came here looking just for the lyrics to Uptown / Don’T Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby) / Da Doo Run Run, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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