Lyrics to
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

This version of Even Cowgirls Get The Blues was released by Emmylou Harris in 1979.

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She’s a rounder I can tell you that
She can sing ’em all night, too
She’ll raise hell about the slep she lost
But even cowgirls get the blues

Especially cowgirls, they’re the gypsy kind
And need their laid on ’em loose
She’s lived to see the world turned upside down
Hitchin’ rides out of the blues

But even cowgirls get the blues sometimes
Bound to don’t know what to do sometimes
Get this feelin’ like she’s too far gone
The only way she’s ever been

Lonely nights are out there on the road
Motel ceiling stares you down
There must be safer ways to pay your dues
But even cowgirls get the blues

Even cowgirls get the blues sometime
Bound to don’t know what to do sometimes
Get this feelin’ like she’s too far gone
The only way she’s ever been

Even cowgirls get the blues sometime
Bound to don’t know what to do sometimes
Get this feelin’ like the restless wind
The only way she’s ever been

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Emmylou Harris. Some of the lyrics to Even Cowgirls Get The Blues have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Emmylou Harris and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Even Cowgirls Get The Blues 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 Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" means the words set to the music of Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Emmylou Harris. 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 Even Cowgirls Get The Blues and the lyrics to Even Cowgirls Get The Blues are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Emmylou Harris who came here looking just for the lyrics to Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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