Lyrics to
Raspberry Jam

This version of Raspberry Jam was released by Carole King in 1970.

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Pieces of toast
Raspberry jam
Laid out on the breakfast table
It’s time to begin again

Way down in the valley
Where the rivers flow
Lives a girl named Sally
Who loves to watch things grow

Pieces of toast
Raspberry jam
Laid out on the breakfast table
It’s time to begin again

Now Sally has five children
And a good old man
And they all sit down together
For their toast and their raspberry jam

Oh, how they have
Pieces of toast, raspberry jam
Laid out on the breakfast table
It’s time to begin again

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides Raspberry Jam. Carole King released songs from 1968 to 2005 spanning across albums like Now That Everything's Been Said, Writer, Tapestry, Music, Rhymes & Reasons, Fantasy, Wrap Around Joy, Really Rosie, Thoroughbred, Simple Things, Welcome Home, Touch The Sky, Pearls: Songs Of Goffin And King, One To One, Speeding Time, City Streets, Colour Of Your Dreams, Love Makes The World, and The Living Room Tour. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carole King.

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About Lyrics and Raspberry Jam by Carole King

The lyrics to Raspberry Jam are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Carole King in 1970. Elements of the lyrics to Raspberry Jam are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Carole King and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Raspberry Jam back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Raspberry Jam by Carole King in a number of 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 Raspberry Jam" means the words set to the music of Raspberry Jam, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carole King. 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 Raspberry Jam and the lyrics to Raspberry Jam are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carole King who came here looking just for the lyrics to Raspberry Jam, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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