Lyrics to
Midnight Rider

This version of Midnight Rider was released by The Allman Brothers Band in 1970.

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Well, I’ve got to run to keep from hidin’,
And I’m bound to keep on ridin’.
And I’ve got one more silver dollar,
But I’m not gonna let ’em catch me, no,
Not gonna let ’em catch the Midnight Rider.

And I don’t own the clothes I’m wearing,
And the road goes on forever,
And I’ve got one more silver dollar,
But I’m not gonna let ’em catch me, no
Not gonna let ’em catch the Midnight Rider.

And I’ve gone by the point of caring,
Some old bed I’ll soon be sharing,
And I’ve got one more silver dollar,

But I’m not gonna let ’em catch me, no
Not gonna let ’em catch the Midnight Rider.

No, I’m not gonna let ’em catch me, no
Not gonna let ’em catch the Midnight Rider.

No, I’m not gonna let ’em catch me, no
Not gonna let ’em catch the Midnight Rider.

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About Lyrics and Midnight Rider by The Allman Brothers Band

When you decide to study the lyrics to Midnight Rider, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by The Allman Brothers Band. Some of the lyrics to Midnight Rider have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Allman Brothers Band and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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