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Workin’ For MCA

This version of Workin’ For Mca was released by Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1974.

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Seven years of hard luck, comin’ down on me
From the Florida border, yea up to Nashville Tennessee
I worked in every joint you can name, mister every honkytonk
Along come Mr Yankee Slicker, sayin’ maybe you’re what I want

Want you to sign your contract
Want you to sign today
Gonna give you lots of money
Workin’ For MCA

9000 dollars, that’s all we could win
But we smiled at the Yankee Slicker with a big ol’ Southern grin
They’re gonna take me out to California gonna make me a superstar
Just pay me all of my money and mister maybe you won’t get a scar

Suckers took my money since I was seventeen
If it ain’t no pencil pusher, it got to be a honkytonk queen
But I’ll sign my contract baby, and I wan’t you people to know
That every penny that I make, I’m gonna see where my money goes

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The lyrics to Workin’ For Mca are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Lynyrd Skynyrd used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Workin’ For Mca have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Lynyrd Skynyrd 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 Workin’ For Mca by Lynyrd Skynyrd. 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 Workin’ For Mca" means the words set to the music of Workin’ For Mca, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Lynyrd Skynyrd. 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 Workin’ For Mca and the lyrics to Workin’ For Mca are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Lynyrd Skynyrd who came here looking just for the lyrics to Workin’ For Mca, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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