Lyrics to
Poor Poor Pitiful Me

This version of Poor Poor Pitiful Me was released by Linda Ronstadt in 1977.

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Well I lay my head on the railroad track
Waiting on the Double E
But the train don’t run by here no more
Poor poor pitiful me

Poor poor pitiful me
Poor poor pitiful me
Oh these boys won’t let me be
Lord have mercy on me
Woe woe is me

Well I met a man out in Hollywood
Now I ain’t naming names
Well he really worked me over good
Just like Jesse James
Yes he really worked me over good
He was a credit to his gender
Put me through some changes Lord
Sort of like a Waring blender

Poor poor pitiful me
Poor poor pitiful me
Oh these boys won’t let me be
Lord have mercy on me
Woe woe is me

Well I met a boy in the Vieux Carres
Down in Yokohama
He picked me up and he threw me down
He said “Please don’t hurt me Mama”

Poor poor pitiful me
Poor poor pitiful me
Oh these boys won’t let me be
Lord have mercy on me
Woe woe is me

Poor poor poor me
Poor poor pitiful me
Poor poor poor me
Poor poor pitiful me
Poor poor poor me
Poor poor pitiful me

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About Lyrics and Poor Poor Pitiful Me by Linda Ronstadt

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

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

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