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A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’t Got No Business (Singin’ The Blues)

This version of A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’T Got No Business (Singin’ The Blues) was released by Jim Croce in 1973.

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I was born to sing a good-time song
You know that nothin’ used to bring me down

‘Til the day I fell in love with you
And baby that’s the day I found…

You had me singin’ the blues
Singin’ the blues
But a good-time man like me
Ain’t got no business singin’ the blues

Go on woman get out of here
You know that I don’t wanta see your face
‘Cause the things you’re doin’ to this boys mind
Is just an absolute disgrace…

You got him singin’ the blues
Singin’ the blues
But a good-time man like me
Ain’t got no business singin’ the blues

Never gonna fall in love again
You know I learned my lesson well
I played the game of love and lost my heart
You can believe me when I tell you that I’m…

That I’m singin’ the blues
Singin’ the blues
But a good-time man like me
Ain’t got no business singin’ the blues

You got me singin’ the blues
Singin’ the blues
But a good-time man like me
Ain’t got no business singin’ the blues

You had me singin’ the blues
Singin’ the blues
And a good-time man like me
Ain’t got no business singin’ the blues

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When you decide to study the lyrics to A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’T Got No Business (Singin’ The Blues), you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Jim Croce. Some of the lyrics to A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’T Got No Business (Singin’ The Blues) have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Jim Croce and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’T Got No Business (Singin’ The Blues) 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 A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’T Got No Business (Singin’ The Blues)" means the words set to the music of A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’T Got No Business (Singin’ The Blues), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jim Croce. 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 A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’T Got No Business (Singin’ The Blues) and the lyrics to A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’T Got No Business (Singin’ The Blues) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jim Croce who came here looking just for the lyrics to A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’T Got No Business (Singin’ The Blues), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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