Lyrics to
Amanda

Released by Don Williams in 1973
From the Album: Don Williams, Vol. 1 |

This version of Amanda was released by Don Williams in 1973.

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I’ve held it all inward
Lord knows I’ve tried
It’s an awful awakenin’
In a country boy’s life
To look in the mirror
In total surprise
At the hair on your shoulders
And the age in your eyes.

Amanda light of my life
Fate should have made you a gentle man’s wife
Amanda light of my life
Fate should have made you a gentle man’s wife.

Well the measure of people
Don’t understand
The pleasures of life
In a hillbilly band
I got my first guitar
When I was fourteen
Now I’m crowding thirty
And still wearin’ jeans.


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Don Williams has released many songs over the years besides Amanda. Don Williams released songs from 1973 to 2004 spanning across albums like Don Williams, Vol. 1, Don Williams, Vol. 2, Don Williams, Vol. 3, You're My Best Friend, Harmony, Visions, Country Boy, Expressions, Portrait, I Believe In You, Especially For You, Listen To The Radio, Yellow Moon, Cafe Carolina, New Moves, Traces, One Good Well, Prime Cuts, True Love, Currents, Borrowed Tales, Flatlands, I Turned The Page, and My Heart To You. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Don Williams.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Amanda, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Don Williams. Some of the lyrics to Amanda have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Don Williams and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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