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Need A Lady

This version of Need A Lady was released by The Doobie Brothers in 1977.

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Well, I’ve had some thought in a loving direction
I want to be the part of someone’ affection
Been alone too long, my head hangin’ low
There’s no one to see and no place to go
Need a lady
Drive me crazy
Come with me and surely we’ll be free

I walk the streets in the dead of night
Wishing for some lovin’ arms to hold me tight
But it’s always down to my old guitar
That’s all that keeps me from the bars

I need a, need a lady
Need a lady
Like the lady from Tennessee

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Need A Lady, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by The Doobie Brothers. Some of the lyrics to Need A Lady have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Doobie Brothers and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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