Lyrics to
Old Country Waltz

This version of Old Country Waltz was released by Neil Young in 1977.

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They were playing
that old country waltz
In this empty bar
echoin’ off the wall.
When I first got the bad news
that you set me free,
The band played the
old country waltz to me.

Well, I loved,
and I lost, and I cried
The day that
the two of us died.
Ain’t got no excuses,
I just want to ride
While the band plays the
old country waltz.

Out the window the moon shines
On the roofs of the cars
While I knock down
tequila and salt
And the band plays the
old country waltz.

And we’re playin’ it,
that old country waltz
In this empty bar
echoin’ off the wall.
Ain’t got no excuses,
we just want to play
That good old country waltz.

I ain’t got no excuses,
I just want to play
That good old country waltz.
That good old country waltz.

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About Lyrics and Old Country Waltz by Neil Young

When you decide to study the lyrics to Old Country Waltz, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Neil Young. Some of the lyrics to Old Country Waltz have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Neil Young and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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