Lyrics to
One Paper Kid

This version of One Paper Kid was released by Emmylou Harris in 1978.

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Cowboys and indians and trees he could climb
Tomorrow came too fast but he didn’t mind
The distance was short so light it again
It don’t take no time to get where I am
But one paper kid wasn’t really so mean
Just a little bit scarred and a little bit green
And he’d heard of a place it was legal to dream
So he sat with his coffee in a blue Texas wind
And he wrote on a rock
The one paper kid is rollin’ again

Driver was drunk or he just didn’t see
The future is there it’ll happen to me
And all the time that he wasted was his once again
Ah, it never takes long to get where you’ve been
Broken hearts scattered all over the past
Old bad memories trying to last
Whiskey and women and growing up fast
Fussing and loving and itching like grass
Hell that one paper kid wasn’t really so mean
Just a little bit weird cause times were so lean
Now he’s gone to a place where it’s legal to dream
No camels no coffee no cold morning winds
It was wrote on a rock
The one paper kid is rollin’ again

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About Lyrics and One Paper Kid by Emmylou Harris

When you decide to study the lyrics to One Paper Kid, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Emmylou Harris. Some of the lyrics to One Paper Kid have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Emmylou Harris and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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