Lyrics to
Can’t Take It With You

This version of Can’T Take It With You was released by The Allman Brothers Band in 1979.

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Can’t take it with you
Everybody knows
Can’t take it with you when you go
Can’t hide your love away
Save it up for a rainy day
Ya can’t take it with you when you go

Play it high or low
Break the bank in Monte Carlo
You can play it just the way it falls
Cut it like you want to
But it just might come back and haunt you
Lady Luck’s your mama when she calls

Can’t take it with you
Everybody knows
Can’t take it with you when you go
Can’t hide your love away
Save it up for a rainy day
You can’t take it with you when you go

Hot-wire a fast car
Just to take a ride
You can run, but you sure cannot hide
Oh, tell her a lie
And live with it ’til you die, but you
Can’t take it with you when you go
And it hurts so bad when you finally have to show

Can’t take it with you
Everybody knows
Can’t take it with you when you go
Can’t hide your love away
Save it up for a rainy day
You can’t take it with you when you go
No, you can’t take it with you when you go, ooh
No, you can’t take it with you when you go, not now

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The Allman Brothers Band has released many songs over the years besides Can’T Take It With You. The Allman Brothers Band released songs from 1969 to 2003 spanning across albums like The Allman Brothers Band, Idlewild South, At Fillmore East, Eat A Peach, Brothers And Sisters, Win, Lose Or Draw, Enlightened Rogues, Reach For The Sky, Brothers Of The Road, Seven Turns, Shades Of Two Worlds, Where It All Begins, and Hittin' The Note. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Allman Brothers Band.

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About Lyrics and Can’T Take It With You by The Allman Brothers Band

The lyrics to Can’T Take It With You are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Allman Brothers Band used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to Can’T Take It With You have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Allman Brothers Band and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Can’T Take It With You by The Allman Brothers Band. 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 Can’T Take It With You" means the words set to the music of Can’T Take It With You, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Allman Brothers 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 Can’T Take It With You and the lyrics to Can’T Take It With You are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Allman Brothers Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Can’T Take It With You, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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