Lyrics to
Georgia

This version of Georgia was released by The Charlie Daniels Band in 1971.

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Lamps in the windows burnin’ bright, over in Santa Fe tonight
Full moon shining down along the border
But the ground is hard and the night is black
Over here by the railroad track
And I wish to the Lord that I was back in Georgia

Blue water in the evening sun,
Calling me when the day is done
Mama, mama pray for your son

All of my life I’ve been told
That the LA streets was paved with gold
Fame and fortune waiting to reward ya
But it didn’t take long to understand
California ain’t the promised land
But at least a man’s a man in Georgia

Blue skys in the mornin’ there
And there’s green trees and breathin’ air
Rockabye in my easy chair

Well the St. Mary’s River in the Georgia moonlight
Flowing under the Folkston Bridge
The sun comes up through the long leaf pine trees
Over ’round the Kingsland ridge
I may be here but my mind is still
About 90 miles north of Jacksonville

Well I may not make it, it’s a long, long road
But mama I’ve paid all the debts I owe
And if I don’t you know they gonna find me tryin’
They took my songs and they took my soul
They made me hard and they made me old
Hell I just been born, but I feel just like I’m dying

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

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