Lyrics to
Big Bayou

This version of Big Bayou was released by Rod Stewart in 1976.

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I took a long, long trip to the city
I was determined to get somewhere
I spent all my hard earned money
I had saved to put me there

Big bayou where did you go
To the river that’s running slow
and to the Gulf of Mexico
Big bayou carry me home

I took a cotton picking job in Memphis
And the people there treated me good
But my luck run bad in Nashville
I had to walked the streets of Hollywood

Big bayou where did you go
To the river that’s running slow
into the Gulf of Mexico
Big bayou carry me home

Oh Lord I’m going home
Where the fish jump in the air
You know I don’t need a lot of money
Cause I ain’t going nowhere

Big bayou where did you go
To the river that’s running slow
into the Gulf of Mexico
Big bayou carry me home

Big bayou carry me home
To the river that’s running slow
into the Gulf of Mexico
Big bayou where did you go

I’m gonna catch a southbound
train home one of these days

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About Lyrics and Big Bayou by Rod Stewart

When you decide to study the lyrics to Big Bayou, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Rod Stewart. Some of the lyrics to Big Bayou have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Rod Stewart and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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