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It Ain’t Fair That It Ain’t

This version of It Ain’T Fair That It Ain’T was released by Dolly Parton in 1971.

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It ain’t fair for you to leave me cold and cryin’ in the night
It ain’t fair to take your body from my arms and out of sight
It ain’t fair you’ve gone and left me where you kissed me I still burn
Are you leaving for my loving this awful hurt and then return
It ain’t fair for you to leave me alone to face the morning light
It ain’t fair you took my body and then to say that it ain’t right
It ain’t fair you’ve made me your woman a no longer a good girl in your eyes
How come before you said you’d love me it ain’t fair that it ain’t right
It just ain’t fair that it ain’t right

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When you decide to study the lyrics to It Ain’T Fair That It Ain’T, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Dolly Parton. Some of the lyrics to It Ain’T Fair That It Ain’T have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Dolly Parton and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to It Ain’T Fair That It Ain’T 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 It Ain’T Fair That It Ain’T" means the words set to the music of It Ain’T Fair That It Ain’T, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Dolly Parton. 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 It Ain’T Fair That It Ain’T and the lyrics to It Ain’T Fair That It Ain’T are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Dolly Parton who came here looking just for the lyrics to It Ain’T Fair That It Ain’T, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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