Lyrics to
Blind Man

This version of Blind Man was released by The Charlie Daniels Band in 1979.

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On a cold concrete sidewalk, on the corner of Fifth and Main
Sits an old black blind man, and no one knows his name.
He plays the same old guitar, he plays the same old tune
And when the people pass him by, some are heard to say
“Play, let the blind man play”.

He was a cotton picker down in Alabam’
Daddy never amounted to much; died by his own hand
He lost his sight one terrible night by the hand of the Ku Klux Klan
Burned his eyes with a branding iron some are heard to say;

Play, let the blind man play
Maybe you’ll be around another day
Dreamin’ about those little things you know you’ll never see
So play, let the blind man play, let the blind man play!

The years were kind while the man was blind, but he knew his time was due
And no one cried when the blind man died, with the name that no one knew
They made his coffin outta knotty pine, with a wreath of laurel too
His epitaph was short and sweet, and all it said was “Play”.

Play, let the blind man play
Maybe you’ll be around another day
Dreamin’ about those little things you know you’ll never see
So play, let the blind man play, let the blind man play
Maybe you’ll be around another day
Dreamin’ about those little things you know you’ll never see
So play, let the blind man play, let the blind man play

Play that guitar blind man!

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The Charlie Daniels Band has released many songs over the years besides Blind Man. The Charlie Daniels Band released songs from 1971 to 2002 spanning across albums like Charlie Daniels, Fire On The Mountain, Nightrider, High Lonesome, Saddle Tramp, Midnight Wind, Million Mile Reflections, Full Moon, Homesick Heroes, Fiddle Fire - 25 Years Of The Charlie Daniels Band, Road Dogs, and Redneck Fiddlin' Man. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Charlie Daniels Band.

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About Lyrics and Blind Man by The Charlie Daniels Band

The lyrics for Blind Man are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by The Charlie Daniels Band. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Blind Man 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 Blind Man - The Charlie Daniels Band 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 Blind Man by The Charlie Daniels Band 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 Blind Man" means the words set to the music of Blind Man, 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 Blind Man and the lyrics to Blind Man 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 Blind Man, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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