Lyrics to
Hard Nose The Highway

This version of Hard Nose The Highway was released by Van Morrison in 1973.

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Hey kids dig the first takes
Ain’t that some inspiration
When sinatra sings against Nelson Riddle Strings
Then takes a vacation

Seen some hard times
Drawn some bad lines
No time for shoeshines
Hard Nose the Highway

I was tore down at the dead’s place
Shaved head at the organ
But that wasn’t half as bad as it was oh no
Belfast and Boston

Put your money where your mouth is
Then we can get something going
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime
And leave one or two cards showing

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Van Morrison has released many songs over the years besides Hard Nose The Highway. Van Morrison released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Blowin' Your Mind!, Astral Weeks, Moondance, His Band And The Street Choir, Tupelo Honey, Saint Dominic's Preview, Hard Nose The Highway, It's Too Late To Stop Now, Veedon Fleece, A Period Of Transition, Wavelength, Into The Music, Common One, Beautiful Vision, Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart, A Sense Of Wonder, No Guru, No Method, No Teacher, Poetic Champions Compose, Irish Heartbeat, Avalon Sunset, Enlightenment, Hymns To The Silence, Too Long In Exile, Days Like This, How Long Has This Been Going On, Tell Me Something: The Songs Of Mose Allison, The Healing Game, The Philosopher's Stone, Back On Top, The Skiffle Sessions - Live In Belfast, You Win Again, Down The Road, What's Wrong With This Picture?, and Magic Time. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Van Morrison.

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About Lyrics and Hard Nose The Highway by Van Morrison

The lyrics to Hard Nose The Highway are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Van Morrison in 1973. Elements of the lyrics to Hard Nose The Highway are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Van Morrison and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Hard Nose The Highway back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Hard Nose The Highway by Van Morrison in a number of 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 Hard Nose The Highway" means the words set to the music of Hard Nose The Highway, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Van Morrison. 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 Hard Nose The Highway and the lyrics to Hard Nose The Highway are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Van Morrison who came here looking just for the lyrics to Hard Nose The Highway, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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