Lyrics to
Good Time Living

This version of Good Time Living was released by Three Dog Night in 1970.

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Air pollution, revolution, you know I’ve had my fill.
Advertisin’, computerizin’, don’t understand it and I never will.

Got to get back to some good time livin’
Got to get out where the air is sweet.
Got to, got to get back livin’
Work with our hands, live off the land,
Feel good clean earth under your feet.

Isolation, segregation, government controls
Call it a cop out gotta drop out.
You and me we gotta save out souls.

Got to get back to some good time livin’
Got to get out where the air is sweet.
Got to, got to get back livin’
Work with our hands, live off the land,
Feel good clean earth under your feet.

You’re gonna take to planting flowers everywhere.
We’ll find a world of simple pleasures we can share.

Gotta, gotta, got, got, to get back living.
Gotta, gotta, got, got, to get back living.
Gotta, gotta, got, got, to get back living.
Gotta, gotta, got, got, to get back living.
Gotta, gotta, got, got, to get back living.

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About Lyrics and Good Time Living by Three Dog Night

When you decide to study the lyrics to Good Time Living, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Three Dog Night. Some of the lyrics to Good Time Living have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Three Dog Night and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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