Lyrics to
You Get It Up

This version of You Get It Up was released by Chicago in 1976.

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You get it up
You get it up
You get me feeling so hot
Mama, I’m your buttercup
I’m blowing up
I’m blowing up
It’s getting hotter and I
Don’t know if I’ll ever stop
Baby
Baby baby baby
You get it up
You get it up

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About Lyrics and You Get It Up by Chicago

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

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

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