Lyrics to
Louise

This version of Louise was released by Bonnie Raitt in 1977.

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They all said ‘Louise was not half bad’
It was written on the walls & window shades
And how she’d act
A little girl
The deceiver, don’t believe her,
That’s her trade

Sometimes a bottle of perfume
Flowers, and maybe some lace
Men bought Louise ten cent trinkets
Their intentions were easily traced

Everybody thought it kind of sad
When they found Louise in her room
They’d all put her down
Below their kind
Still some cried when she died
That afternoon

Louise rode home on a mail train
Somewhere to the south I heard them say
‘It’s too bad it ended so ugly,
It’s too bad she had to go that’

But the wind is blowin’ cold tonight
Goodnight Louise, Goodnight
Yes, the winds’ blowin’ cold tonight
Goodnight Louise, good-night…

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Louise, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Bonnie Raitt. Some of the lyrics to Louise have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bonnie Raitt and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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