Lyrics to
It Won’t Be Right

Released by The Doobie Brothers in 1971
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This version of It Won’T Be Right was released by The Doobie Brothers in 1971.

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Early in the mornin’ when the sun come up
You’ll find me sittin’ at the table, drinkin’ from a wooden cup
The mortgage is a comin’ tryin’ to take my home away
I’m not gonna let it turn my head away
It won’t be right
No matter what they say
Won’t be right
Tryin’ to take my home away
Won’t be right
If they do this thing to me
I don’t have to take it
And I really don’t wanna see

Early in the evenin’ long about supper time
There’s nothin’ left here for me but a bottle of wine
I’m gonna be evicted along about the hour of five
Well, it’s enough to make me wonder why I’m alive

It won’t be right
No matter what they say
Won’t be right
Tryin’ to take my home away
Won’t be right
If they do this thing to me
I don’t have to take it
And I really don’t wanna see


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The Doobie Brothers has released many songs over the years besides It Won’T Be Right. The Doobie Brothers released songs from 1971 to 2000 spanning across albums like The Doobie Brothers, Toulouse Street, The Captain And Me, What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits, Stampede, Takin' It To The Streets, Livin' On The Fault Line, Minute By Minute, One Step Closer, Cycles, Brotherhood, and Sibling Rivalry. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Doobie Brothers.

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

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

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