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Who Do You Love?

This version of Who Do You Love? was released by George Thorogood And The Destroyers in 1978.

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I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie
A brand new house on the road side, and it’s a-made out of rattlesnake hide
Got a band new chimney put on top, and it’s a-made out of human skull
Come on take a little walk with me baby, and tell me who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

Around the town I use a rattlesnake whip, take it easy baby don’t you give me no lip
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

I’ve got a tombstone hand and a graveyard mind, I’m just twenty-two and I don’t mind dying
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

Now Arlene took a-me by my hand, she said “Lonesome George you don’t understand,
who do you love?”
The night were dark and the sky were blue, down the alleyway a house wagon flew
Hit a bump and somebody screamed, you should’ve heard what I’d seen
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

Yeah, I’ve got a tombstone hand in a graveyard mine, just twenty-two baby I don’t mind dying
Snake skin shoes baby put them on your feet, got the goodtime music and the Bo Diddley beat
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie
A brand new house on the road side, and it’s made out of rattlesnake hide
Got a band new chimney put on top, and it’s made out of human skull
Come on take a little walk with me child, tell me who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

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The lyrics to Who Do You Love? are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that George Thorogood And The Destroyers used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Who Do You Love? have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only George Thorogood And The Destroyers and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Who Do You Love? by George Thorogood And The Destroyers. 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 Who Do You Love?" means the words set to the music of Who Do You Love?, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by George Thorogood And The Destroyers. 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 Who Do You Love? and the lyrics to Who Do You Love? are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of George Thorogood And The Destroyers who came here looking just for the lyrics to Who Do You Love?, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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