Lyrics to
All I Can Do

This version of All I Can Do was released by Dolly Parton in 1976.

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It’s all I can do to keep from falling in love with you
All I can do to keep from letting it show
Yeah it’s all I can do to keep from falling in love with you
All I can do to keep from telling you so
I wasn’t looking for love when I found you
Just someone to be with and have a good time
But I get these strange funny feelings around you
When you’re not with me, you’re still on my mind

And it’s all I can do to keep from falling in love with you
All I can do to keep from letting it show
Yeah it’s all I can do to keep from falling in love with you
All I can do to keep from telling you so

I had intended to wait for a long time
I thought that love would just mess up my plans
‘Cause I had big plans for a bright shining future
Could this be my future that’s holding my hand

And it’s all I can do to keep from falling in love with you
All I can do to keep from letting it show
Yeah it’s all I can do to keep from falling in love with you
All I can do to keep from telling you so

I need to tell you how I feel about you
But I’m so afraid that you don’t feel the same
But if I don’t tell you how I feel about you
I just might lose you, can I take that chance

And it’s all I can do to keep from falling in love with you
All I can do to keep from letting it show
Yeah it’s all I can do to keep from falling in love with you
All I can do to keep from telling you so

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides All I Can Do. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

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About Lyrics and All I Can Do by Dolly Parton

The lyrics for All I Can Do are defined as the words making up the song released by Dolly Parton in 1976. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to All I Can Do have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Dolly Parton and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to All I Can Do by Dolly Parton if you think through it. 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 All I Can Do" means the words set to the music of All I Can Do, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Dolly Parton. 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 All I Can Do and the lyrics to All I Can Do are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Dolly Parton who came here looking just for the lyrics to All I Can Do, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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