Lyrics to
Never Trust A Stranger

This version of Never Trust A Stranger was released by The Marshall Tucker Band in 1977.

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We were riding through the flatlands
We were searching for two prisoner
Who just broke jail
A tall one and a lean one
Rode a chestnut stallion
And the word was that the main man
Well he was mean as hell

An outlaw is a man
Who never understands
A word called danger
He learns to shoot and ride as a child
And to never trust a stranger
And he’s always called a better man

We chased him to the border
All the way to El Paso
The ride was long, the ride was hard
But the sheriff said we can’t let ’em go
He said let me tell you something
I’ve been tracking for a long time
They never trust a stranger
And they take care of their own

An outlaw is a man
Who never understands
A word called danger
He learns to shoot and ride as a child
And to never trust a stranger
And he’s always called a better man

Today’s man is an outlaw
On that long road to freedom
You work him to take his pride
And then you try to cheat him
Then one day you figure out
It’s a long long story
An outlaw is a man who takes care of his own

An outlaw is a man
Who never understands
A word called danger
He learns to shoot and ride as a child
And to never trust a stranger
And he’s always called a better man

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The Marshall Tucker Band has released many songs over the years besides Never Trust A Stranger. The Marshall Tucker Band released songs from 1973 to 1979 spanning across albums like The Marshall Tucker Band, A New Life, Where We All Belong, Searchin' For A Rainbow, Long Hard Ride, Carolina Dreams, Together Forever, and Running Like The Wind. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Marshall Tucker Band.

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About Lyrics and Never Trust A Stranger by The Marshall Tucker Band

The lyrics for Never Trust A Stranger are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by The Marshall Tucker Band. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Never Trust A Stranger 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 Never Trust A Stranger - The Marshall Tucker Band 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 Never Trust A Stranger by The Marshall Tucker Band 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 Never Trust A Stranger" means the words set to the music of Never Trust A Stranger, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Marshall Tucker 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 Never Trust A Stranger and the lyrics to Never Trust A Stranger are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Marshall Tucker Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Never Trust A Stranger, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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