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Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen

Released by Santana in 1970
From the Album: Abraxas |

This version of Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen was released by Santana in 1970.

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Got a black magic woman
Got a black magic woman.

I got a black magic woman
Got me so blind I can’t see
That she’s a black magic woman
She’s tryin’ to make a devil out of me.

Turn your back on me baby
Turn your back on me baby.

Yes, don’t turn your back on me baby
Stop messin’ eround with your tricks
Don’t turn your back on me baby
You just might pick up my magic sticks.

Got your spell on me baby
Got your spell on me baby.

Yes you got your spell on me baby
Turning my heart into stone
I need you so bad – magic woman
I can’t leave you alone.


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When you decide to study the lyrics to Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Santana. Some of the lyrics to Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Santana and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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