Lyrics to
A New Life

This version of A New Life was released by The Marshall Tucker Band in 1974.

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Hey, mister, got a road map?
I’m kinda lost
Gotta get to Georgia tonight
Don’t care what it costs
Been down in Denver jail for four long years
And I’m so homesick I could die

Got a sweet woman back home
Waitin there for me
Least in all her letters, Lord
She said she’d be
Waitin there with open arms
Born new life for me
And I’m so homesick I could die

Shot a man in Denver
Over some money owed
So she told me
That I had to go
But I paid my time
And a new life is gonna be mine

And a new life is gonna be mine

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About Lyrics and A New Life by The Marshall Tucker Band

The lyrics to A New Life are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Marshall Tucker Band used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to A New Life have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Marshall Tucker Band 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 A New Life by The Marshall Tucker Band. 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 New Life" means the words set to the music of A New Life, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Marshall Tucker Band. 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 New Life and the lyrics to A New Life are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Marshall Tucker Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to A New Life, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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