Lyrics to
You Sure Love To Ball

This version of You Sure Love To Ball was released by Marvin Gaye in 1973.

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Ooh Baby please turn yourself around
Ahh baby so I can love you
Ohh baby baby
I’ll make you feel so good
Ohh baby just like you want me to
Ohhh
Ohh baby you sure do love to ball
Ohh baby you sure do love to ball
Ohh baby I hope you never freeze
I love you I love you so much
Ohh baby baby don’t ever go no where
Ohh baby I’ll love you night and day
Ohh baby you sure do love to ball
Ohh baby you sure do love to ball
Ohh I just love you that’s all
I’ve got my mind made up baby
There are no doubts (Ohh baby)
Since you’re my foxy lady, foxy lady
Ohh baby you sure do love to ball
Ohh baby you sure do love to ball
My lady my baby sure does love to ball
(on my mind there’s….)
All I know that if we should ever
Ever, ever ever ever part
That one day will surely break my heart
Got to get ready, got ot get ready
(ohh)
Ohh baby You sure do love to ball
Ohh baby you sure do love to ball

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About Lyrics and You Sure Love To Ball by Marvin Gaye

When you decide to study the lyrics to You Sure Love To Ball, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Marvin Gaye. Some of the lyrics to You Sure Love To Ball have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Marvin Gaye and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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