Lyrics to
Black Bayou

This version of Black Bayou was released by The Charlie Daniels Band in 1977.

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Well I lost all my money playing five card stud
Now my last six pack is gone
I ain’t got no bed for my achin’ head
Cause my baby won’t let me come home

Well it must have been a west-bound ill wind
It might have been an evil breeze
But something come floating through the swamp last night
And put the hoochie-coo on me

Black Bayou
I ain’t done nothing to you

When I woke up it was late Sunday night
And I was way down in jail on my knees
I called my best friend up on the phone
And said, “Hey buddy, can you help me please?”
He said, “I think you must have the wrong number,
I don’t seem to recall your name.”
I said, “They turn me loose,
I get my hands on you,
You ain’t never a gonna forget it again.”

Black Bayou
I ain’t done nothing to you.

Well it must have been a west-bound ill wind
It might have been an evil breeze
But something come floating through the swamp last night
And put the hoochie-coo on me

Black Bayou
I ain’t done nothing to you.

Black Bayou
I ain’t done nothing to you.

Black Bayou
I ain’t done nothing to you.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Black Bayou, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by The Charlie Daniels Band. Some of the lyrics to Black Bayou have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Charlie Daniels Band and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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