Lyrics to
Ghost Story

This version of Ghost Story was released by Don Williams in 1974.

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I’ve seen how you tremble
Whenever he walks through your mind
Stirring up memories that cloud up your eyes
Where the light of our love ought to shine

I know that he hurt you, hurt you so bad
He must have been going insane
Now I’ve finally learned how to hold you together
When somebody mentions his name

He’s just a ghost story so don’t let him scare you
He’s not really there like he seems
And tonight when I hold you, I’ll hold you so close
I’ll love him right out of your dreams

I know that he’s called you
And told you that our love can’t last
But don’t you believe him, ’cause honey he’s wrong
He’s never been right in the past

So don’t let him haunt you and tell you those lies
He just can’t admit that you’re free
And the next time he calls you just hand me the phone
And see if he says it to me

He’s just a ghost story so don’t let him scare you
He’s not really there like he seems
And tonight when I hold you I’ll hold you so close
I’ll love him right out of your dreams

He’s just a ghost story so don’t let him scare you
He’s not really there like he seems
And tonight when I hold you I’ll hold you so close
I’ll love him right out of your dreams…

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About Lyrics and Ghost Story by Don Williams

When you decide to study the lyrics to Ghost Story, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Don Williams. Some of the lyrics to Ghost Story have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Don Williams and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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