Lyrics to
Go Down Fighting

This version of Go Down Fighting was released by Nazareth in 1973.

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Gonna go down fightin’
Gonna go down fightin’
‘Cause I know that I’m right and
I’m gonna go down fightin’ for your love

Well I know what your thinkin’
You got me up against the wall
But the higher that your flyin’
The further down you gotta fall
Now don’t you be fooled by my shakin’ knees
‘Cause I can fight dirty and when I’m scared
I get mean

Well I know you’re thinkin’
That the odds is on your side
But the first thing you gotta learn is
That it just don’t come down to size
I can see the seeds of doubt
Begin to grow on your face
If you wanna back down now
You know that’s no disgrace

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Nazareth has released many songs over the years besides Go Down Fighting. Nazareth released songs from 1971 to 1998 spanning across albums like Nazareth, Excercises, Razamanaz, Loud 'N' Proud, Rampant, Hair Of The Dog, Play 'N' The Game, Close Enough For Rock 'N' Roll, Expect No Mercy, No Mean City, Malice In Wonderland, The Fool Circle, 2XS, Sound Elixir, The Catch, Cinema, Snakes 'N' Ladders, No Jive, From The Vaults, Move Me, and Boogaloo. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Nazareth.

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The lyrics to Go Down Fighting are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Nazareth used when the song was created in 1973. The lyrics to Go Down Fighting have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Nazareth and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Go Down Fighting by Nazareth. 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 Go Down Fighting" means the words set to the music of Go Down Fighting, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Nazareth. 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 Go Down Fighting and the lyrics to Go Down Fighting are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Nazareth who came here looking just for the lyrics to Go Down Fighting, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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