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Girl From The North Country

This version of Girl From The North Country was released by Joe Cocker in 1970.

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If you’re traveling in the north country fair
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was the true love of mine.

If you go when the snowflakes storm
When the rivers freeze and summer ends
Please see if she’s a coat so warm
To keep her from the howlin’ winds.

Please see if her hair hangs long
If it rolls and flows all down her breast
Please see from me if her hair hangs long
That’s the way I remember her best.

I’m a-wonderin’ if she remember me at all
Many times I’ve often prayed
In the darkness of my night
In the brightness of my day.

So if you’re travelin’ in the north country fair
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Girl From The North Country, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Joe Cocker. Some of the lyrics to Girl From The North Country have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Joe Cocker and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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