Aerosmith

Released: November 9, 1985

Songwriter: Joe Perry Steven Tyler

Producer: Ted Templeman

[Chorus]
Gypsy, gypsy, dancing feet
Gypsy, gypsy, bittersweet
Screamer, dreamer, disarray
Gypsy, gypsy, why did you fly away

[Verse 1]
No good, papa's no good
Sister's no good and that's a drag
Sometimes you're feeling
Like your head's on the ceiling
When you scream hey mama...rag
When your daddy come home
With an old soup bone
Cause he drank all the money away
And your mama's in the kitchen
On the phone she be bitching
And your girlfriend who called to say

[Chorus]
Gypsy, gypsy, dancing feet
Gypsy, gypsy, bittersweet
Screamer, dreamer, disarray
Gypsy, gypsy, why did you fly away

[Verse 2]
High school lover, with your corpse undercover
Getting high jack...Lebanese
Hey mama, choose it, you all been through it
Or be falling off you right to your knees
(Pair a shades, shotgun, rock on)?
Chewing gum, take it to the dance tonight
Your a (love hate)? child with wild child smile
And you don't care wrong from right

[Chorus]
Gypsy, gypsy, dancing feet
Gypsy, gypsy, bittersweet
Screamer, dreamer, disarray
Gypsy, gypsy, why did you fly away

[Verse 3]
Nobody but nobody baby
Knocking my socks off
Rock, rock, rocking
I'll be gotten, I'll be getting my rocks off
Nobody but nobody shooting
Never gets a shot off
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as “The Bad Boys from Boston” and “America’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band.” Formed in 1970, its founding members are Steven Tyler (vocals, keyboards, harmonica), Tom Hamilton (bass), Joey Kramer (drums), Joe Perry (guitar, vocals) and Brad Whitford (guitar).

The band released their eponymous debut studio album in 1973 featuring the single “Dream On,” which remains one of their most popular songs. Their next four albums made them rock stars across the US and Canada, spawning the hits “Sweet Emotion”, “Last Child”, “Walk This Way”, “Back In The Saddle”, “Draw The Line”, and a cover of “Come Together” for the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Soundtrack.

Before the release of their fifth album Draw The Line, the band’s substance abuse began to destroy them. Perry quit after a backstage fight with Tyler in 1979, and Whitfield left two years later. Despite moderate sales, the band’s fifth and sixth albums were considered flops when compared to the band’s past accomplishments. When Perry and Whitfield returned in 1984, their eighth album Done With Mirrors was also deemed unsuccessful despite strong reviews. Doug Herzog (MTV, VH1)

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