Lyrics to
I’ll Be Your San Antonio Rose

This version of I’Ll Be Your San Antonio Rose was released by Emmylou Harris in 1977.

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If they’ll play another love song
And if that Miller Highlife light stays dim
And if you’ll keep my glass full of whiskey
I’ll whisper words I wish I’d said to him

Just ask me to dance all the slow ones
Hold me close and take me ‘cross the floor
I’ll gently lay my head on your shoulder
And pretend this never happened before

I don’t want to hear a sad story
We both already know how it goes
So if you’ll be my tall dark stranger
I’ll be your San Antone Rose

I wish I could tell you I love you
I wish that he weren’t always on my mind
I wishes were fast trains to Texas
I’d ride and I’d ride, how I’d ride

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When you decide to study the lyrics to I’Ll Be Your San Antonio Rose, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Emmylou Harris. Some of the lyrics to I’Ll Be Your San Antonio Rose have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Emmylou Harris and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to I’Ll Be Your San Antonio Rose 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 I’Ll Be Your San Antonio Rose" means the words set to the music of I’Ll Be Your San Antonio Rose, 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 I’Ll Be Your San Antonio Rose and the lyrics to I’Ll Be Your San Antonio Rose 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 I’Ll Be Your San Antonio Rose, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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