Lyrics to
Down Home Girl

This version of Down Home Girl was released by Nazareth in 1976.

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Lord I swear, the perfume you wear
Is made out of turnip greens
And every time that I kiss you girl
It tastes like pork and beans
Even though you’re wearin’ them
Citified high heels
I can tell by your giant steps
That you’ve been walkin’ through cotton fields
Ohhhhhh, you’re some down home girl
Your shoes are green, your dress is red
And your wiggy head is powder blue
But underneath all of that mess,
Well you’re still the same old messy you
You’re sittin there in that fancy chair
Just drinkin’ champaigne like a movie star
When ya oughta be sittin’ on a sidewalk
Drinkin white lightnin’
Out of a jelly jar
Oh, you’re some down home girl
Dimples in your pretty cheeks
And dimples in your knees
You walk by and baby I
Can smell magnolia trees
You tell me you’re from New York baby
But I know you’re from way down South
I can hear a Mississippi mama
Evey time you open up your mouth
Oh, you’re some down home girl
Oh, you’re some down home girl

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Nazareth has released many songs over the years besides Down Home Girl. Nazareth released songs from 1971 to 1998 spanning across albums like Nazareth, Excercises, Razamanaz, Loud 'N' Proud, Rampant, Hair Of The Dog, Play 'N' The Game, Close Enough For Rock 'N' Roll, Expect No Mercy, No Mean City, Malice In Wonderland, The Fool Circle, 2XS, Sound Elixir, The Catch, Cinema, Snakes 'N' Ladders, No Jive, From The Vaults, Move Me, and Boogaloo. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Nazareth.

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The lyrics to Down Home Girl are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Nazareth in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to Down Home Girl are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Nazareth and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Down Home Girl back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Down Home Girl by Nazareth in a number of 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 Home Girl" means the words set to the music of Down Home Girl, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Nazareth. 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 Home Girl and the lyrics to Down Home Girl are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Nazareth who came here looking just for the lyrics to Down Home Girl, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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