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Hillbilly Band

This version of Hillbilly Band was released by The Marshall Tucker Band in 1973.

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I gotta get home before the sun goes down
I gotta go listen to my favorite sound
It’s a hillbilly fiddle and an ol’ guitar
Cousin Stanley on a corn liquor jar

Sometimes I stay up late at night
A little moonshine whiskey and everything’s alright
You’ll probably get stuck, ya don’t know where ya are
As you stomp your feet to a country guitar

You can have fun, I’m tellin’ you can
When you stomp your feet to a hillbilly band

Everynight just where I go
I grab me a lady and I doe-see-doe
Ain’t nothin’ in this world I’d rather do
Then to guitar pick some country blues

I’m gonna do a little chicken pickin’
I’m gonna do a little chicken pickin’

You can have fun, I’m tellin’ you can
When you stomp your feet to a hillbilly band

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

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