Lyrics to
River Of Happiness

This version of River Of Happiness was released by Dolly Parton in 1974.

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Somewhere a river of happiness flows
We’ll sit on its banks while the warm breezes blow
Somewhere there’s a garden where only love grows
Somewhere a river of happiness flows

Dry your eyes, don’t cry no more
We’ll find a place where there’s laughter and joy
So take my hand and don’t let go
Come with me and together we’ll go

We’ll walk in the sunshine
We’ll laugh and we’ll sing
And dance to the tune that our happiness brings
Come go with me to this place I speak of
Together, we’ll find it, this place is called love

Somewhere a river of happiness flows

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides River Of Happiness. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

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About Lyrics and River Of Happiness by Dolly Parton

When you decide to study the lyrics to River Of Happiness, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Dolly Parton. Some of the lyrics to River Of Happiness have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Dolly Parton and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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