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Forty Days And Forty Nights

This version of Forty Days And Forty Nights was released by Steppenwolf in 1970.

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Forty days and forty nights
Since my baby done left this town
Oh the sun shinin’ all day long
But the rain it just keeps on comin’ down
She’s my life I need her so
Why she left I just don’t know

Forty days and forty nights
Since I sat right down and cried
It keeps on rainin’ all the time
But the river is runnin’ dry
Lord help me it just ain’t right
I love that girl with all my might

Forty days and forty nights
Since my baby done broke my heart
I’ve been searchin’ for her everywhere
Just like a blind man in the dark
Love can make a poor man rich
Or break his heart, I don’t know which

Forty days and forty nights
Like a ship out on the stormy sea
I’ve been prayin’ for her every night
That she would come back home to me
Life is love and love is light
I hope she comes back home tonight

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

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