Lyrics to
Black And Blue

This version of Black And Blue was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1973.

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I been working so hard my backs near broke
My brows are wet and my throat’s a choke
You sent me here for ten long years
I miss my whiskey I miss my beer
Ain’t seen a gal since I don’t know when
And the way you treat me won’t see one again

Well, you can beat me
You can try to break me
Still I’ll say to you
You’ll never break my spirit
When my body’s black and blue

Well in my arm there’s a dreadful pain
It’s hard digging ditches with a ball and chain
You broke my back cause I spat on a guard
That don’t make me no better, that just makes me hard
Your water it stinks ’cause it comes from a bog
And the food you serve me ain’t fit for a dog

You can beat me
You can try to break me
And still I’ll say to you
You’ll never break my spirit
When my body’s black and blue

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band has released many songs over the years besides Black And Blue. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Glorified Magnified, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Messin', Solar Fire, The Good Earth, Nightingales & Bombers, The Roaring Silence, Watch, Angel Station, Chance, Somewhere In Afrika, Criminal Tango, Masque, Soft Vengeance, and 2006. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

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About Lyrics and Black And Blue by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

The lyrics for Black And Blue are defined as the words making up the song released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1973. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Black And Blue have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 Black And Blue by Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 Black And Blue" means the words set to the music of Black And Blue, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. 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 Black And Blue and the lyrics to Black And Blue are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Manfred Mann's Earth Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Black And Blue, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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