Lyrics to
Down In The Track

This version of Down In The Track was released by The Doobie Brothers in 1974.

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I been workin’ the whole day long
On these railroad ties singin’ a sad, sad song
Down the track is a bad way to live
The boss man’s whip is all he’s got to give
And late at night in the twilight of the South
They put you in a cell and let the bulldogs out
The old cat down the way
Well he’s singin’ out the blues
‘Cause he’s got no one back home
Oh, somebody sighed
Next day comes they send you back out on the track
All that sweat be drippin’ down off your back
Everybody’s singin’ a workin’ man’s song
Hopin’ they don’t have to feel the whip on their bone
The water boy slowly works his way around
A bucket full of swamp water weighin’ him down
Old Squezer Walker just fell out on the ground
And they’re draggin’ his body away
Oh, my, my, my

Well, there’s talk around camp
That there’s gonna be a fight
Old Razor Face and Willie Black
The meanest dudes in sight
One’s got a razor and the other’s got a knife
But only one’s gonna walk out alive

Oh, baby, mama, get me out of here
Can’t stand no more
This place is gonna be the death of me
Believe to my soul that I gotta be free
There’s only one way that it’s every gonna be
That’s when the angels come and take me away
Well, now

Oh, baby, mama, get me out of here
Can’t stand no more
This place is gonna be the death of me
Believe to my soul that I gotta be free
There’s only one way that it’s every gonna be
That’s when the angels come and take me away
Well, now

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You can understand the lyrics to Down In The Track 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 Down In The Track" means the words set to the music of Down In The Track, 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 Down In The Track and the lyrics to Down In The Track 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 Down In The Track, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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