Lyrics to
Vancouver Shakedown

This version of Vancouver Shakedown was released by Nazareth in 1976.

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We only came here to play rock’n’roll
Share some times with some people we know
Drink some wine
Give us some time
We aint no wise boys we aint no fools
We tried to play clean and keep to the rules
We take and we give, just playin’ our gig
But we got laid over
Ya we was done over
Somebody tell us what’s goin’ down
Don’t need another Vancouver shakedown
Six miles high, six miles along
Chasin’ the sun we’ve come to sing you a song
Deliver our goods
We’re just rock’n’roll dudes
All these behind us, and one more to go
Fly to Vancouver, to do the lastshow
It’s got to be good, like we know that it should
But we got laid over
Ya we was doneover
Somebody tell us what’s goin’ down
Don’t need another Vancouver shakedown
Vancouver shakedown
Vancouver shakedown
We only came here to play rock’n’roll
Share some times with some people we know
Drink some wine
Give us some time
But we got laid over
Ya we was done over
Somebody tell us what’s goin’ down
Don’t need another Vancouver shakedown
Vancouver shakedown
Vancouver shakedown
Vancouver shakedown
Vancouver shakedown
Vancouver shakedown
Vancouver shakedown

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About Lyrics and Vancouver Shakedown by Nazareth

When you decide to study the lyrics to Vancouver Shakedown, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Nazareth. Some of the lyrics to Vancouver Shakedown have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Nazareth and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Vancouver Shakedown 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 Vancouver Shakedown" means the words set to the music of Vancouver Shakedown, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Nazareth. 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 Vancouver Shakedown and the lyrics to Vancouver Shakedown are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Nazareth who came here looking just for the lyrics to Vancouver Shakedown, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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