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Are You Ready For The Country

This version of Are You Ready For The Country was released by Neil Young in 1972.

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Slipping and sliding
and playing domino
Lefting and then Righting,
it’s not a crime you know.
You gotta tell your story boy,
before it’s time to go.

Are you ready for the country
because it’s time to go?
Are you ready for the country
because it’s time to go?

I was talkin’ to the preacher,
said God was on my side
Then I ran into the hangman,
he said it’s time to die
You gotta tell your story boy,
you know the reason why.

Are you ready for the country
because it’s time to go?
Are you ready for the country
because it’s time to go?

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The lyrics to Are You Ready For The Country are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Neil Young used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to Are You Ready For The Country have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Neil Young 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 Are You Ready For The Country by Neil Young. 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 Are You Ready For The Country" means the words set to the music of Are You Ready For The Country, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Neil Young. 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 Are You Ready For The Country and the lyrics to Are You Ready For The Country are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Neil Young who came here looking just for the lyrics to Are You Ready For The Country, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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