Lyrics to
Down Brownie

This version of Down Brownie was released by Zz Top in 1972.

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When I woke up this mornin’
had a smile run across my face.
My baby from town just had to get down,
come and drag me all over the place.

Gonta drive on a flatbed trailer truck
down on highway fifty-nine.
I had the blues and my baby, she knew
she’s holdin’ little piece of mind.

Down brownie,
my brownie downtown,
down brownie.

Got my share and I’m a black hand cottonfield
just to try and keep myself alive.
Eatin’ red beans and rice with the right sauce, it’s nice
or anything you wanna try.

Now I’m hitchin’ a ride back from Brownie’s,
I’m kind of sad but I feel alright.
The cold night it stings but I got me some wings,
I’ll be flyin’ into Houston tonight.

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About Lyrics and Down Brownie by Zz Top

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

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