Lyrics to
Black Queen

This version of Black Queen was released by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby in 1971.

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This is a song about a card game
Black queen, holding hearts
Black queen, tear the game apart
Black queen, don’t you know?
Can’t beat aces all in a row, black queen, no you can’t
Have mercy black queen
Don’t you go mess with the black queen, no
Black queen, see the whole hand
Black queen, where’s your black man?
Black queen, if he ain’t in the hole
Black queen, you got some more to show me, black queen
Oh, get on me black queen
Oh, Lord, have mercy, black queen
She’s called to beat me clean
Black queen, where’s your bank roll?
Black queen, where did it go?
Black queen, the truth is hard
Black queen, you’re playin’ foolish cards, black queen

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About Lyrics and Black Queen by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby

The lyrics for Black Queen are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Black Queen have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Black Queen - Stills, Nash & Young Crosby and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Black Queen by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby in multiple ways. 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 Queen" means the words set to the music of Black Queen, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby. 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 Queen and the lyrics to Black Queen are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Stills, Nash & Young Crosby who came here looking just for the lyrics to Black Queen, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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