Lyrics to
Down On The Farm

This version of Down On The Farm was released by The Doors in 1971.

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Don’t need none today
His mind has gone astray
‘Cause we don’t need none today
Did you hear what I say?
Don’t need none today

Gonna run a rainbow ragged
City life’s a real bad habit
All the boys are down on the farm

Gonna run a rainbow ragged
City life’s a real bad habit
C’mon along it won’t do you no harm
We’re goin’ down on the farm

Don’t need none today
His mind has gone astray
‘Cause we don’t need none today
Did you hear what I say?
Don’t need none today

Gonna run a rainbow ragged
City life’s a real bad habit
All the boys are down on the farm

Gonna run a rainbow
Gonna run a rainbow
Gonna run a rainbow
Gonna run a rainbow

Gonna run a rainbow ragged
City life’s a real bad habit
C’mon along it won’t do you no harm
All the boys are down on the farm

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About Lyrics and Down On The Farm by The Doors

The lyrics for Down On The Farm are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by The Doors. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Down On The Farm 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 On The Farm - The Doors 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 On The Farm by The Doors 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 On The Farm" means the words set to the music of Down On The Farm, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Doors. 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 On The Farm and the lyrics to Down On The Farm are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Doors who came here looking just for the lyrics to Down On The Farm, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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