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Family Bible

This version of Family Bible was released by Willie Nelson in 1971.

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There’s a family Bible on the table
Each page is torn and hard to read
But the family Bible on the table
Will ever be my key to memories
At the end of day when work was over
And when the evening meal was done
Dad would read to us from the family Bible
And we’d count our many blessings one by one
I can see us sittin’ round the table
When from the family Bible dad would read
I can hear my mother softly singing rock of ages Rock of ages cleft for me

Now this old world of ours is full of trouble
This old world would also better be
If we’d find more Bibles on the tables
And mothers singing rock of ages cleft for me
I can see us sittin’ round the table
When from the family Bible dad would read
I can hear my mother softly singing rock of ages
Rock of ages rock of ages cleft for me

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The lyrics to Family Bible are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Willie Nelson in 1971. Elements of the lyrics to Family Bible are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Willie Nelson and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Family Bible back when it was created.

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

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