Lyrics to
Handy Man

This version of Handy Man was released by James Taylor in 1977.

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Hey girls, gather round, listen to what I’m putting down.
Hey babe, I’m your handy man.
I’m not the kind to use a pencil or rule, I’m handy with love and I’m no fool,
I fix broken hearts, I know that I truly can.

If your broken heart should need repair, then I’m the man to see.
I whisper sweet things, you tell all your friends, they’ll come running to me.

Here is the main thing I want to say, I’m busy 24 hours a day.
I fix broken hearts, I know that I truly can.
Comma, comma, comma, com, com, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Comma, comma, comma, com, com, yeah, yeah, yeah, they’ll come running to me.

Here is the main thing I want to say, I’m busy 24 hours a day.
I fix broken hearts, I know that I truly can.
Comma, comma, comma, com, com, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Comma, comma, comma, com, com, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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The lyrics to Handy Man are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that James Taylor used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Handy Man have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only James Taylor 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 Handy Man by James Taylor. 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 Handy Man" means the words set to the music of Handy Man, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by James Taylor. 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 Handy Man and the lyrics to Handy Man are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of James Taylor who came here looking just for the lyrics to Handy Man, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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