Lyrics to
Mountain Woman

This version of Mountain Woman was released by The Kinks in 1971.

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They lived together in a dirty old shack
At the edge of the black rocky mountain
And they drank mountain dew and they lived on the food
That they grew at the side of the mountain

She’s a mountain woman, he’s her mountain man
They lived all their lives by the valley
She’s a mountain woman, he’s her mountain man
Uneducated but they’re happy

Mountain woman couldn’t read nor write
But she knew good from evil, she knew wrong from right
When the government tried to buy her water rights
Her intuition was her only guide

She’s a mountain woman, he’s her mountain man
Lived all their lives by the valley
She’s a mountain woman, he’s her mountain man
Uneducated but they’re happy
Spend my life with my mountain woman
We’re uneducated by we’re happy

The civil servant used compulsory purchase
To acquire the valley for the nation
They’ll dig up the land, they’re gonna make a dam
And build a hydroelectric power station

And now she lives on the 33rd floor
Of a man-made concrete mountain
She got an elevator and refrigerator
And an automobile to run around in

Fast talkin’ lawyers from the government
Went and beat proud mountain woman down
Hey mountain woman, take your mountain man
They took your land and flood your valley

Spend my life with my mountain woman
They’re uneducated by they’re happy

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About Lyrics and Mountain Woman by The Kinks

The lyrics for Mountain Woman are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by The Kinks. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Mountain Woman have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Mountain Woman - The Kinks and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Mountain Woman by The Kinks in multiple ways. 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 Mountain Woman" means the words set to the music of Mountain Woman, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Kinks. 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 Mountain Woman and the lyrics to Mountain Woman are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Kinks who came here looking just for the lyrics to Mountain Woman, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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