Lyrics to
Hello Stranger

This version of Hello Stranger was released by Emmylou Harris in 1977.

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Hello stranger
Put your loving hand in mine
You are a stranger
And you’re a friend of mine
Get up, rounder
Let a working girl lay down
You are a rounder
And you’re all out and down

Every time
I ride the four and six street cars
I can see my baby
Peeping through the bars

He bowed his head
And he waved both hands at me
He’s prison bound
And longing to be free

I’ll see you
When your troubles are like mine
Yes. I’ll see you
When you haven’t got a dime

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Emmylou Harris has released many songs over the years besides Hello Stranger. Emmylou Harris released songs from 1969 to 2003 spanning across albums like Gliding Bird, Elite Hotel, Pieces Of The Sky, Luxury Liner, Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town, Light Of The Stable, Blue Kentucky Girl, Roses In The Snow, Cimarron, Evangeline, Last Date, White Shoes, The Ballad Of Sally Rose, Thirteen, Angel Band, Trio, Bluebird, Duets, Brand New Dance, At The Ryman, Cowgirl's Prayer, Wrecking Ball, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, Trio II, Red Dirt Girl, and Stumble Into Grace. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Emmylou Harris.

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About Lyrics and Hello Stranger by Emmylou Harris

The lyrics to Hello Stranger are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Emmylou Harris in 1977. Elements of the lyrics to Hello Stranger are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Emmylou Harris and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Hello Stranger back when it was created.

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

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