Lyrics to
Burn That Candle

This version of Burn That Candle was released by Emmylou Harris in 1978.

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Keep that candle burnin’ bright, mama
I’ll be kind of late tonight, mama
There’s a yellow moon above me, mama
Shinin’ on the one I love, mama
Burn that candle
Night and day
Burn that candle
Honey light our way
Keep that doorway open wide
Until we come slowly strollin’ side by side
While that candle’s shinin’ high, mama
I’ll be with my sugar pie, mama

We’ll be comin’ home you know and mama
Lookin’ for that candle glowin’, mama
After we have had the wedding, mama
To that candle we’ll be headin’, mama
So before we’re winin’ and dinin’, mama
Keep that candle light a-shinin’, mama

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Emmylou Harris has released many songs over the years besides Burn That Candle. Emmylou Harris released songs from 1969 to 2003 spanning across albums like Gliding Bird, Elite Hotel, Pieces Of The Sky, Luxury Liner, Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town, Light Of The Stable, Blue Kentucky Girl, Roses In The Snow, Cimarron, Evangeline, Last Date, White Shoes, The Ballad Of Sally Rose, Thirteen, Angel Band, Trio, Bluebird, Duets, Brand New Dance, At The Ryman, Cowgirl's Prayer, Wrecking Ball, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, Trio II, Red Dirt Girl, and Stumble Into Grace. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Emmylou Harris.

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About Lyrics and Burn That Candle by Emmylou Harris

The lyrics for Burn That Candle are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Emmylou Harris. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Burn That Candle 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 Burn That Candle - Emmylou Harris 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 Burn That Candle by Emmylou Harris 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 Burn That Candle" means the words set to the music of Burn That Candle, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Emmylou Harris. 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 Burn That Candle and the lyrics to Burn That Candle are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Emmylou Harris who came here looking just for the lyrics to Burn That Candle, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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