Lyrics to
Running With The Crowd

From the Album: High Lonesome |

This version of Running With The Crowd was released by The Charlie Daniels Band in 1976.

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Come all ye young cowboys and listen to me
And don’t waste your life on that ol’ hangin’ tree
And don’t think that size ever makes a man small
You find out it’s nothing at all

They know a tension when the old words are said
‘Don’t cheat in poker and don’t lose your head’
Lost cowboys are human and bullets kill dead
Six guns don’t make a man tall

‘Cause it’s all so easy to run with the crowd
And they’re a damn good bunch of cowboys
Makes a man feel proud

Do a honest day’s work for the money you spend
Be fast with the ladies and slow with the man
Be kind to your horses and true to your friends
And treat every mother’s son fair

Don’t stay in town late on a Saturday night
Don’t let no one tease you into a fight
‘Cause when they’re saddled with guns
There ain’t nobody right
It’s a short trail that leads to nowhere

‘Cause it’s all so easy to run with the crowd
And they’re a damn good bunch of cowboys
Makes a man feel proud

‘Cause it’s all so easy to run with the crowd
And they’re a damn good bunch of cowboys
Makes a man feel proud


The Charlie Daniels Band has released many songs over the years besides Running With The Crowd. The Charlie Daniels Band released songs from 1971 to 2002 spanning across albums like Charlie Daniels, Fire On The Mountain, Nightrider, High Lonesome, Saddle Tramp, Midnight Wind, Million Mile Reflections, Full Moon, Homesick Heroes, Fiddle Fire - 25 Years Of The Charlie Daniels Band, Road Dogs, and Redneck Fiddlin' Man. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Charlie Daniels Band.

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The lyrics to Running With The Crowd are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by The Charlie Daniels Band in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to Running With The Crowd are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by The Charlie Daniels Band and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Running With The Crowd back when it was created.

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

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