Lyrics to If You Pray Right

This version of If You Pray Right was released by Nina Simone in 1978.

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If you love right, heaven belongs to you
If you love right, heaven belongs to you
If you love right, heaven belongs to you
Oh oh, heaven belongs to you

If you sing right, heaven belongs to you
If you sing right, heaven belongs to you
If you sing right, heaven belongs to you
Oh oh, heaven belongs to you

If you act right, heaven belongs to you
If you act right, heaven belongs to you
If you act right, heaven belongs to you
Oh oh, heaven belongs to you

If you love right, heaven belongs to you
If you love right, heaven belongs to you
If you love right, heaven belongs to you
Oh oh, heaven belongs to you

If you sing right, heaven belongs to you
If you play right, heaven belongs to you
If you play right, heaven belongs to you
Oh oh, heaven belongs to you

If you love right, heaven belongs to you
If you love right, heaven belongs to you
If you love right, heaven belongs to you
Oh oh, heaven belongs to you

If you sing right, heaven belongs to you
If you sing right, heaven belongs to you
If you sing right, heaven belongs to you
Oh oh, heaven belongs to you

If you play right, heaven belongs to you
If you play right, heaven belongs to you
If you play right, heaven belongs to you
Oh oh, heaven belongs to you

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Nina Simone has released many songs over the years besides If You Pray Right. Nina Simone released songs from 1958 to 1987 spanning across albums like Little Girl Blue, At Town Hall, The Amazing Nina Simone, At Newport, Forbidden Fruit, At The Village Gate, Nina Simone Sings Ellington, At Carnegie Hall, Broadway Blues Ballads, Folksy Nina, Nina Simone In Concert, Pastel Blues, I Put A Spell On You, Nina Simone With Strings, Wild Is The Wind, Let It All Out, Nina Simone Sings The Blues, High Priestess Of Soul, Silk And Soul, Nuff Said!, Nina Simone And Piano!, To Love Somebody, Black Gold, Here Comes The Sun, Emergency Ward, It Is Finished, Baltimore, Fodder On My Wings, Nina's Back, Let It Be Me, and Live At Ronnie Scott's. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Nina Simone.

About Lyrics and If You Pray Right by Nina Simone

The lyrics for If You Pray Right are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Nina Simone. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to If You Pray Right 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 If You Pray Right - Nina Simone 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 If You Pray Right by Nina Simone 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 If You Pray Right" means the words set to the music of If You Pray Right, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Nina Simone. 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 If You Pray Right and the lyrics to If You Pray Right are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Nina Simone who came here looking just for the lyrics to If You Pray Right, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.