Lyrics to
Blue Ridge Mountain Sky

This version of Blue Ridge Mountain Sky was released by The Marshall Tucker Band in 1974.

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It’s a lonesome road
And a hard way to live
But it’s the only life that I know
I met some people, I traveled around
But home’s always the best place to go

It’s a lonesome feeling in my mind
A feeling that I can’t leave behind
Carolina’s where I’m at, and
I’ll always hang my hat
Under those Blue Ridge Mountain skies

I got me a woman back home
She gave me a baby, too
And she stands by my loving side and
Does anything I ask her to

It’s a lonesome feeling in my mind
A feeling I can’t seem to leave behind
Carolina’s where I’m at, and
I’ll always hang my hat
Under those Blue Ridge Mountain skies

There’s an old man, sittin’ in a rockin’ chair
He’s got the best beagle dog in the county I’ve been told
But his shotgun done got too rusty
That ‘ole beagle dog he done grown a little too old
As he stares up into heaven, I’m sure I know the reason why
He’s thinking about that promised land in them Blue Ridge Mountain skies

It’s a lonesome feeling in my mind
A feeling I can’t seem to leave behind
Carolina’s where I’m at, and
I’ll always hang my hat
Under those Blue Ridge Mountain skies

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The lyrics for Blue Ridge Mountain Sky are defined as the words making up the song released by The Marshall Tucker Band in 1974. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Blue Ridge Mountain Sky have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only The Marshall Tucker 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 Blue Ridge Mountain Sky by The Marshall Tucker 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 Blue Ridge Mountain Sky" means the words set to the music of Blue Ridge Mountain Sky, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Marshall Tucker 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 Blue Ridge Mountain Sky and the lyrics to Blue Ridge Mountain Sky are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Marshall Tucker Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Blue Ridge Mountain Sky, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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