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Your Mama Don’t Dance

This version of Your Mama Don’T Dance was released by Elvis Presley in 1974.

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Your mama don’t dance and your daddy don’t rock and roll;
Your mama don’t dance and your daddy don’t rock and roll;
But when evening rolls around and it’s time to go to town,
Where do you go to rock and roll?

The old folks say that ya gotta end your date by ten;
If you’re out on a date and you bring it home late, it’s a sin.
There just ain’t no excuse and you know you’re gonna lose and never win,
I’ll say it again.

And it’s all because your mama don’t dance and your daddy don’t rock and roll;
Your mama don’t dance and your daddy don’t rock and roll;
When evening rolls around and it’s time to go to town,
Where do you go, to rock and roll?

You pull into a drive-in, you find a place to park,
You hop into the backseat where you know it’s nice and dark;
You’re just about to groove, and you’re thinking it’s a breeze,
Then there’s a light in your eye, and then a guy says,
Out of the car long hair, oowee
You’re coming with me-the local police.

And it’s all because your mama don’t dance and your daddy don’t rock and roll;
Your mama don’t dance and your daddy don’t rock and roll;
When evening rolls around, and it’s time to go to town,
Where do you go to rock and roll?
Where do you go to rock and roll?
Where do you go to rock and roll?

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About Lyrics and Your Mama Don’T Dance by Elvis Presley

The lyrics to Your Mama Don’T Dance are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Elvis Presley used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Your Mama Don’T Dance have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Elvis Presley 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 Your Mama Don’T Dance by Elvis Presley. 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 Your Mama Don’T Dance" means the words set to the music of Your Mama Don’T Dance, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Elvis Presley. 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 Your Mama Don’T Dance and the lyrics to Your Mama Don’T Dance are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Elvis Presley who came here looking just for the lyrics to Your Mama Don’T Dance, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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