Lyrics to
Captain Bobby Stout

This version of Captain Bobby Stout was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1972.

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Brother why are you here?
Brother why are you here?
Captain Bobby Stout done found me out
Now I owe that man one more year
Yes I owe the man one more year

Brother why are you here?
Brother why are you here?
Captain Bobby Stout done found me out
Now I owe that man one more year
I owe the man one more year

First came down to Wichita Town
Pocket full of Mexican smoke
I sold it to a man I did not know
‘Cause I was hungry and I was broke

Brother why are you here?
Brother why are you here?
Captain Bobby Stout done found me out
Now I owe that man one more year
Yes I owe the man one more year

My mother she stays in Chicago
My poppa stays down in the ground
My baby did go to San Francisco
When the judge laid his gavel down

Brother why are you here?
Brother why are you here?
Captain Bobby Stout done found me out
Now I owe that man one more year
Yes I owe the man one more year

My partner came down to Wichita Town
Tried to set me free
Captain Bobby Stout done found him out
Now my partner stays here with me

Brother why are you here?
Brother why are you here?
Captain Bobby Stout done found me out
Now I owe that man one more year
Yes I owe the man one more year

Brother why are you here?
Brother why are you here?
Captain Bobby Stout done found me out
Now I owe that man one more year
Yes I owe the man one more year

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band has released many songs over the years besides Captain Bobby Stout. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Glorified Magnified, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Messin', Solar Fire, The Good Earth, Nightingales & Bombers, The Roaring Silence, Watch, Angel Station, Chance, Somewhere In Afrika, Criminal Tango, Masque, Soft Vengeance, and 2006. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

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The lyrics for Captain Bobby Stout are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Captain Bobby Stout 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 Captain Bobby Stout - Manfred Mann's Earth 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 Captain Bobby Stout by Manfred Mann's Earth 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 Captain Bobby Stout" means the words set to the music of Captain Bobby Stout, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Manfred Mann's Earth 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 Captain Bobby Stout and the lyrics to Captain Bobby Stout are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Manfred Mann's Earth Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Captain Bobby Stout, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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