Lyrics to
Keep It On Going

This version of Keep It On Going was released by Amy Grant in 1979.

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Someone’s got to keep it on going
Just as long as there’re folks who haven’t heard
So you can count on me ’cause He’s showin’
That there’re so many ways to spread His Word

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About Lyrics and Keep It On Going by Amy Grant

When you decide to study the lyrics to Keep It On Going, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Amy Grant. Some of the lyrics to Keep It On Going have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Amy Grant and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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