Lyrics to
Give Me The Good Earth

This version of Give Me The Good Earth was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1974.

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Give me the good earth I was born on
Give me the sunshine the grass and the trees
Give me the open skies that I can dream on
Give me the flowers, the birds and the trees

Give me the good earth to lay my head on
Give me the mountains, the cool summer breeze
Give me the forests, the deep river valleys
Give me the oceans the fish and the seas

I don’t need to know about the things that lay beyond my life
I don’t need to know about the things that I don’t need

Give me the good earth to rest my mind on
Give me the rainfall that fills empty streams
Give me the life in the hills and the meadows
Give me the seasons all the changes they bring

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Give Me The Good Earth, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Some of the lyrics to Give Me The Good Earth have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Manfred Mann's Earth Band and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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