Lyrics to All The Tired Horses

This version of All The Tired Horses was released by Bob Dylan in 1970.

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All the tired horses in the sun
How am I supposed to get any riding done ?

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About Lyrics and All The Tired Horses by Bob Dylan

When you decide to study the lyrics to All The Tired Horses, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Bob Dylan. Some of the lyrics to All The Tired Horses have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bob Dylan and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to All The Tired Horses 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 All The Tired Horses" means the words set to the music of All The Tired Horses, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bob Dylan. 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 The Tired Horses and the lyrics to All The Tired Horses are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bob Dylan who came here looking just for the lyrics to All The Tired Horses, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.