Lyrics to
Cotton Mouth

This version of Cotton Mouth was released by The Doobie Brothers in 1972.

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Red eyed momma keep cryin’
Blue eyed cat keeps a lyin’
Catfish keep his eye on the string
And that cotton mouth keep on windin’
Sing, sing, sing
Dark moon keeps hidin’
And ‘gator, he keeps right on slidin’
And bull frog, he ain’t mindin’
Oh, cotton mouth keep on windin’
Sing, sing, sing

Lightnin’ bugs in bottles
They gimme all the light I need
And I’m seinin’ bait for linin’
And that cotton mouth keeps on windin’
Sing, sing, sing

Oh, that big iron pot’s a boilin’
And that red eyed momma keeps toilin’
And the crawdad meat’s for dinin’
And oh, that cotton mouth keeps on windin’, Lord
Sing, sing, sing

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About Lyrics and Cotton Mouth by The Doobie Brothers

When you decide to study the lyrics to Cotton Mouth, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by The Doobie Brothers. Some of the lyrics to Cotton Mouth have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Doobie Brothers and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Cotton Mouth if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Cotton Mouth" means the words set to the music of Cotton Mouth, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Doobie Brothers. 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 Cotton Mouth and the lyrics to Cotton Mouth are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Doobie Brothers who came here looking just for the lyrics to Cotton Mouth, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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