Lyrics to
Muddy Water

This version of Muddy Water was released by Free in 1973.

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I was born on the muddy water
I didn’t know right from wrong
My mom she said look here son
I’ll show you how it’s done
Take you a woman and treat her right
She’ll be by your side night and day
The first time you deceive her
You’ve broken her spell
Then I had bad luck
Like a fool I fell where I stood
I was walking in the rain with my shoes untied
Tryin’ to find a dry place to hide
To hide.

But I’d rather sleep that say a word
I don’t believe a word that’s heard
The first time I deceived you
I held it inside
Take you a woman and treat her right
She’ll be by your side night and day
The first time you deceive her
You’ve broken her spell
Then I had bad luck
I held it inside
Like a fool I smiled on my pride
I was walking in the rain with my shoes untied
Tryin’ to find a dry place to hide
To hide.

I was walking in the rain with my shoes untied
Tryin’ to find a dry place to hide
To hide.

I was walking in the rain

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About Lyrics and Muddy Water by Free

The lyrics for Muddy Water are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by Free. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Muddy Water 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 Muddy Water - Free 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 Muddy Water by Free 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 Muddy Water" means the words set to the music of Muddy Water, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Free. 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 Muddy Water and the lyrics to Muddy Water are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Free who came here looking just for the lyrics to Muddy Water, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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