Bush sounds positively deranged in the song, taking the human voice as an instrument to its zenith as she zips between the highs and lows of her vocal range (she hits her highest note on record here, an astonishing F6, with characteristic literalness as she whoops the note on “filling me up with,” w...
[Verse 1]
Four strings across the bridge
Ready to carry me over
Over the quavers, drunk in the bars
Out of the realm of the orchestra
Out of the realm of the orchestra
[Pre-Chorus]
Filling me up with the shivers
Filling me up with the shivers and quivers
Filling me up with the shivers
[Chorus]
Get the bow going
Let it scream to me
Violin, violin, violin
Get the bow going
Let it scream to me
Violin, violin, violin
[Verse 2]
Paganini up on the chimney
Lord of the dance with Nero and old Nicky
Whack that devil into my fiddlestick
Give me the Banshees for B.V.s
Give me the Banshees for B.V.s
[Pre-Chorus]
Jigging along with the fiddle, oh, Johnny
Jigging along with the fiddle-dee-dee
Jigging along with the fiddle-dee-diddle-dee-dee
[Chorus]
Get the bow going
Let it scream to me
Violin, violin, violin
Get the bow going
Let it scream to me
Violin, violin, violin
[Instrumental Break]
[Pre-Chorus]
Jigging along with the fiddle, oh, Johnny
Jigging along with the fiddle, oh, Johnny
Jigging along with the fiddle-dee-diddle-dee-dee
[Chorus]
Get the bow going
Let it scream to me
Violin, violin, violin
Get the bow going
Let it scream to me
Violin, violin, violin
[Outro]
Get the bow going
Let it scream to me
Violin, violin, violin
Get the bow going
Let it scream to me
Violin, violin, violin