Lyrics to
Gettin’ Happy

This version of Gettin’ Happy was released by Dolly Parton in 1974.

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Without a love to call my own my life was incomplete
It seems I couldn’t help but think that love was not for me
My life took on a different twist when I met me a man that I couldn’t resist
I didn’t know why I have missed and I’m gettin’ happy oh I’m gettin’ happy
Yeah yaeh I’m a gettin’ happy all my lonely days’re gone
I’m a gettin’ happy no more lonely nights alone
I got someone to call my own and now my life is like a song
And he lets me sing along I’m gettin’ happy oh I’m gettin’ happy

Oh the people used to talk of love and I couldn’t understand
About the fire in desire of lovin’ a good man
Oh but now I know just what it meant since I met me a man who was heaven’s sent
Don’t know where the sadness went I’m gettin’ happy oh I’m gettin’ happy
I’m a gettin’ happy…

Yeah I’m a gettin’ happy…
Yeah I’m a gettin’ happy…

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides Gettin’ Happy. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

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About Lyrics and Gettin’ Happy by Dolly Parton

The lyrics to Gettin’ Happy are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Dolly Parton in 1974. Elements of the lyrics to Gettin’ Happy are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Dolly Parton and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Gettin’ Happy back when it was created.

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

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