Lyrics to
Great Speckled Bird

This version of Great Speckled Bird was released by Lucinda Williams in 1979.

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What a beautiful thought I am thinking
Con-cerning a great speckled bird
Remember her name is re-corded
On the pages of God’s Holy Word.

All the other birds are flocking ’round her
And she is despised by the squad
But the great speckled bird in the Bible
Is one with the great church of God.

All the other churches are against her
They envy her glory and fame
They hate her because she is chosen
And has not denied Jesus’ name.

Desiring to lower her standard
They watch every move that she makes
They long to find fault with her teachings
But really they find no mistake.

She is spreading her wings for a journey
She’s going to leave by and by
When the trumpet shall sound in the morning
She’ll rise and go up in the sky.

In the presence of all her despisers
With a song never uttered before
She will rise and be gone in a moment
Till the great tribulation is o’er.

I am glad I have learned of her meekness
I am proud that my name is on her book
For I want to be one never fearing
The face of my Savior to look.

When He cometh descending from heaven
On the cloud that He writes in His Word
I’ll be joyfully carried to meet Him
On the wings of that great speckled bird.

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About Lyrics and Great Speckled Bird by Lucinda Williams

The lyrics for Great Speckled Bird are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Lucinda Williams. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Great Speckled Bird have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Great Speckled Bird - Lucinda Williams and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Great Speckled Bird by Lucinda Williams in multiple ways. 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 Great Speckled Bird" means the words set to the music of Great Speckled Bird, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Lucinda 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 Great Speckled Bird and the lyrics to Great Speckled Bird are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Lucinda Williams who came here looking just for the lyrics to Great Speckled Bird, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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