Lyrics to
Our Friend George

This version of Our Friend George was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1972.

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Here you are once again
With your soul on show
And you sing ’bout the pain
On the fire inside of the Earth

Something just ain’t right
Something just ain’t true
About you

Telling me what to feel
And I know, my friend
Know you mean what you say
And I feel the same

Something just ain’t right
Something just ain’t true
About you

Telling me what to feel
And I know, my friend
Know you mean what you say
And I feel the same

Something just ain’t right
Something just ain’t true
About you

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band has released many songs over the years besides Our Friend George. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Glorified Magnified, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Messin', Solar Fire, The Good Earth, Nightingales & Bombers, The Roaring Silence, Watch, Angel Station, Chance, Somewhere In Afrika, Criminal Tango, Masque, Soft Vengeance, and 2006. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

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About Lyrics and Our Friend George by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

The lyrics for Our Friend George are defined as the words making up the song released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1972. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Our Friend George have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Manfred Mann's Earth Band and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Our Friend George by Manfred Mann's Earth Band if you think through it. 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 Our Friend George" means the words set to the music of Our Friend George, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Manfred Mann's Earth 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 Our Friend George and the lyrics to Our Friend George are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Manfred Mann's Earth Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Our Friend George, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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