Lyrics to
Louisiana Saturday Night

This version of Louisiana Saturday Night was released by Don Williams in 1977.

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Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw ’em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen ’til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

Waiting in the front yard sitting on a log,
A single shot rifle and a one eyed dog.
Yonder come the kinfolk, in the moonlight
Louisiana Saturday night!

Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw ’em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen ’til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

My brother Bill and my other brother Jack,
Belly full o’ beer and a possum in a sack.
Fifteen kids in the front porch light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

When your kinfolks leave and the kids get fed,
Me an’ my woman gonna slip off to bed.
Have a little fun when we turn off the light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw ’em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen ’til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

Yeah, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw ’em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen ’til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

You get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw ’em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen ’til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!..

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About Lyrics and Louisiana Saturday Night by Don Williams

The lyrics to Louisiana Saturday Night are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Don Williams used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Louisiana Saturday Night have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Don Williams 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 Louisiana Saturday Night by Don Williams. 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 Louisiana Saturday Night" means the words set to the music of Louisiana Saturday Night, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Don Williams. 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 Louisiana Saturday Night and the lyrics to Louisiana Saturday Night are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Don Williams who came here looking just for the lyrics to Louisiana Saturday Night, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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