Lyrics to
An Old Fashioned Love Song

This version of An Old Fashioned Love Song was released by Three Dog Night in 1971.

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Just an old-fashioned love song
Playin’ on the radio
And wrapped around the music
Is the sound of someone promising they’ll never go
You swear you’ve heard it before
As it slowly rambles on
No need in bringing ’em back
‘Cause they’re never really gone

Just an old-fashioned love song
One I’m sure they wrote for you and me
Just an old-fashioned love song
Comin’ down in three-part harmony

To weave our dreams upon and listen
To each evening when the lights are low
To underscore our love affair with tenderness and feelings
That we’ve come to know
You swear you’ve heard it before
As it slowly rambles on and on
No need in bringing ’em back
‘Cause they’re never really gone

Just an old-fashioned love song
Comin’ down in three-part harmony
Just an old-fashioned love song
One I’m sure they wrote for you and me
Just an old-fashioned love song
Comin’ down in three-part harmony
Just an old-fashioned love song
One I’m sure they wrote for you and me

To weave our dreams upon and listen to a song

Just an old song, comin’ down
Just an old song
One I’m sure they wrote for you and me
Just an old song, comin’ down
Just an old song
One I’m sure they wrote for you and me

Just an old-fashioned love song
Comin’ down in three-part harmony
Just an old-fashioned love song
One I’m sure they wrote for you and me

Just an old-fashioned love song
Comin’ down in three-part harmony
Just an old-fashioned love song
One I’m sure they wrote for you and me

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About Lyrics and An Old Fashioned Love Song by Three Dog Night

The lyrics for An Old Fashioned Love Song are defined as the words making up the song released by Three Dog Night in 1971. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to An Old Fashioned Love Song have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Three Dog Night 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 An Old Fashioned Love Song by Three Dog Night 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 An Old Fashioned Love Song" means the words set to the music of An Old Fashioned Love Song, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Three Dog Night. 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 An Old Fashioned Love Song and the lyrics to An Old Fashioned Love Song are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Three Dog Night who came here looking just for the lyrics to An Old Fashioned Love Song, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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