Lyrics to
Mud Slide Slim

This version of Mud Slide Slim was released by James Taylor in 1971.

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Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. Oh, Mud Slide, I’m dependent on you.
I don’t know but I’ve been told, there’s a time from time to time.
I can’t eat, I can’t sleep but I just might move my feet.
Cause there’s nothing like the sound of sweet soul music to change a young lady’s mind.
And there’s nothing like a walk on down by the bayou to leave the world behind, whoa,
Mud Slide I’m depending upon you. Mister Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon.

I’ve been letting the time go by, letting the time go by,
yes, I’m letting the time go by, letting the time go by.

I’m gonna cash in my hand and pick up on a piece of land
and build myself a cabin back in the woods.
Lord, it’s there I’m gonna stay until there comes a day
when this old world starts to changing for the good.
Now the reason I’m smiling is over on a island on a hillside in the woods where I belong.
I wanna thank Jimmy, Jimmy, John, Nick and Laurie, the No Jets Construction
for setting me down a homestead on the farm, whoa, ooooo.

Mud Slide, I’m depending upon you. Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon.
Night goes on and on, don’t want to come at all. Baby, baby, baby, I know.
Stoney Lee Blue Borne, picking on a fretless bass, yeah, yeah.
Oil slick, slipping and a sliding and a slapping on. Kootcheroo.

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About Lyrics and Mud Slide Slim by James Taylor

The lyrics to Mud Slide Slim are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that James Taylor used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to Mud Slide Slim have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only James Taylor 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 Mud Slide Slim by James Taylor. 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 Mud Slide Slim" means the words set to the music of Mud Slide Slim, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by James Taylor. 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 Mud Slide Slim and the lyrics to Mud Slide Slim are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of James Taylor who came here looking just for the lyrics to Mud Slide Slim, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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