Lyrics to
Fly Eagle Fly

This version of Fly Eagle Fly was released by The Marshall Tucker Band in 1974.

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I can’t imagine how the world would be
Not to see the gray squirrel climbing in an oak tree
To walk through a corn field and not see the wild duck flyin
I believe before the world ever got that bad
I’d be on my knees cryin

Won’t you fly, oh eagle fly
You better run, little cottontail, run
I hope you both live long enough to see the setting sun

The lion ain’t got no jungle
Old black bear got no cave
And that poor old alligator
Just bout seen his better days

Won’t you fly, oh eagle fly
You better run, little cottontail, run
I hope you both live long enough to see the setting sun

On a cold winter morning I could look up in the sky
And I could see the wild geese fly
And on a warm spring day I could look up in the air
And I could see the yellow butterfly

How long has it been since you heard the tiny flutter
Of the little wing of a hummingbird
And I once saw the picture of a buffalo
A thousand in the herd

Won’t you fly, oh eagle fly
You better run, little cottontail, run
I hope you both live long enough to see the setting sun

Fly, mister eagle, fly
You better run little cottontail, run

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About Lyrics and Fly Eagle Fly by The Marshall Tucker Band

The lyrics for Fly Eagle Fly are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by The Marshall Tucker Band. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Fly Eagle Fly 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 Fly Eagle Fly - The Marshall Tucker Band 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 Fly Eagle Fly by The Marshall Tucker Band 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 Fly Eagle Fly" means the words set to the music of Fly Eagle Fly, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Marshall Tucker Band. 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 Fly Eagle Fly and the lyrics to Fly Eagle Fly are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Marshall Tucker Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Fly Eagle Fly, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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