Lyrics to
Rolling Down The Hills

Released by Carly Simon in 1971
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This version of Rolling Down The Hills was released by Carly Simon in 1971.

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People who have bad times
Write hard luck songs
But when their days are green
They think about love
Sunshine, flowers in a garden
Did I bump you sir?
I’m beggin’ your pardon
have you seen such a day?
Let’s begin it by startin’ –
And rollin’ down the hills with me.

People who have short hair
Write short hair songs
But when their hair gets long
They think about winding it around in daisy chains
Waitin’ for the showers
Just to wash it in the rain
Have you seen such hair?
Well let the wind play –
As you’re rollin’ down the hills with me

People who have no hills
Write songs about plains
But if that’s not what you want to do
Well you can jump aboard a bus
Or boat or wooden canoe
I know just the mountain
That’s been waitin’ for you
Too write songs about the peaks
And the beautiful views –
As you’re rollin’ down the hills with me.


Carly Simon has released many songs over the years besides Rolling Down The Hills. Carly Simon released songs from 1971 to 2008 spanning across albums like Carly Simon, Anticipation, No Secrets, Hotcakes, Playing Possum, Another Passenger, Boys In The Trees, Spy, Come Upstairs, Torch, Hello Big Man, Spoiled Girl, Coming Around Again, Working Girl, Have You Seen Me Lately, My Romance, This Is My Life, Letters Never Sent, Film Noir, The Bedroom Tapes, Piglet's Big Movie, Christmas Is Almost Here Again, Moonlight Serenade, Into White, and This Kind Of Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carly Simon.

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About Lyrics and Rolling Down The Hills by Carly Simon

The lyrics for Rolling Down The Hills are defined as the words making up the song released by Carly Simon in 1971. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Rolling Down The Hills have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Carly Simon and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

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Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Rolling Down The Hills by Carly Simon 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 Rolling Down The Hills" means the words set to the music of Rolling Down The Hills, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carly Simon. 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 Rolling Down The Hills and the lyrics to Rolling Down The Hills are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carly Simon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Rolling Down The Hills, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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