Lyrics to
Make Me A Pallet On The Floor

This version of Make Me A Pallet On The Floor was released by Lucinda Williams in 1979.

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Honey, make me down a pallet on your floor
Make me down a pallet on your floor
Honey, make it down, make it soft and low
Then maybe my good gal she won’t know

I’m goin’ up the country through the sleedin’ snow
Goin’ up the country through the sleedin’ snow
I’m goin’ up the country through the sleedin’ snow
Ain’t no telling just how fur I’ll go

I get my breakfast here and my dinner in Tennessee
Get my breakfast here and my dinner in Tennessee
I get my breakfast here and my dinner in Tennessee
I told you I’s a-commin’ soon, you’d better look for me

Honey, I can’t lay down on your bed
You know that I can’t lay down on your bed
Yes, you know that I can’t lay down ‘cross your pretty bed
’cause my good woman she might kill me dead

And don’t you let my good gal catch you here
No don’t you let my good gal catch you here
Doo, she might shoot you, cut and stump you too
Ain’t no tellin’ what o’ she might do

Ooh, make me down a pallet on your floor
Make me down a pallet on your floor
Honey, make it down, make it soft and low
Then maybe my good gal she won’t know

Now the way I’ve been sleepin’ my back and shoulders’ tired
The way I’ve been sleepin’ my back and shoulders’ tired
The way I’ve been sleepin’ my back and shoulders’ tired
Thinking goin’ turn over, tryin’ sleepin’ on my side

Ooh , make me down a pallet on your floor
Make me down a pallet on your floor
Honey, make it down, make it soft and low
Then maybe my good gal she won’t know
(Make that pallet, honey)

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Make Me A Pallet On The Floor, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Lucinda Williams. Some of the lyrics to Make Me A Pallet On The Floor have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Lucinda Williams and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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