Lyrics to
Little Boy Blue

This version of Little Boy Blue was released by The Charlie Daniels Band in 1971.

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Out on the desert when the wind blows the sand
It’s a beautiful sight to behold
Round desert moon turns the nighttime to silver
and the sun turns the daytime to gold

And little boy blue’s got a whole lot to do
And maybe tomorrow he’ll grow up

Out on the desert when the wind blows the sand
It gets in your shoes when you’re walking
That cold desert moon and the hot desert sun
Can get inside your head when you’re talking

And railroads and highways make impatient friends
And maybe tomorrow he’ll follow
There’s Phoenix and Frisco and LA and Reno
And so many fine places to travel

Daytime in the city is something to see
It fills a mans eyes with delight
The buildings they reach up and almost touch the sky
While the bright lights make love to the night

And little boy blue’s got a whole lot to do
And maybe tomorrow he’ll grow up

The city’s so crowded that you can’t go nowhere
It’s all aggravation and worry
You can’t see the sky and you can’t breathe the air
It’ll make a man old in a hurry

And railroads and highways make impatient friends
And lord, don’t he wish he could follow
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And so many fine places to travel

Out on the desert when the wind blows the sand
It’s a beautiful sight to behold
Round desert moon turns the nighttime to silver
And the sun turns the daytime to gold

And little boy blue’s got a whole lot to do
And there’s always tomorrow
Thank god for tomorrow

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The Charlie Daniels Band has released many songs over the years besides Little Boy Blue. The Charlie Daniels Band released songs from 1971 to 2002 spanning across albums like Charlie Daniels, Fire On The Mountain, Nightrider, High Lonesome, Saddle Tramp, Midnight Wind, Million Mile Reflections, Full Moon, Homesick Heroes, Fiddle Fire - 25 Years Of The Charlie Daniels Band, Road Dogs, and Redneck Fiddlin' Man. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Charlie Daniels Band.

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The lyrics to Little Boy Blue are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Charlie Daniels Band used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to Little Boy Blue have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Charlie Daniels Band and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Little Boy Blue by The Charlie Daniels Band. 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 Little Boy Blue" means the words set to the music of Little Boy Blue, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Charlie Daniels Band. 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 Little Boy Blue and the lyrics to Little Boy Blue are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Charlie Daniels Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Little Boy Blue, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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