Lyrics to
Sad Lady

This version of Sad Lady was released by John Cougar Mellencamp in 1976.

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Oh Sad Lady do you curse your name
And how many times have you been ashamed
Crazy Lady letting your emotions show
It’s hard being a woman knowing what you know

Oh Sad Lady were you born in vain
Nothing to live for and no one to blame
Ain’t no use in screaming or pulling on your hair
Crazy Lady dancing with a chair

Oh oh if you should get to know
Sad Lady
Say maybe

Oh Sad Lady won’t you dry your eyes
You go on living wishing you could die
’cause dying’s not bad when living’s not so good
Crazy Lady so misunderstood

Oh oh if you should get to know
Sad Lady
Say maybe

Tell me what you’re thinking
As you lace up white shoes
Tell me Sad Lady

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John Cougar Mellencamp has released many songs over the years besides Sad Lady. John Cougar Mellencamp released songs from 1976 to 2007 spanning across albums like Chestnut Street Incident, A Biography, John Cougar, Nothin' Matters And What If It Did, American Fool, The Kid Inside, Uh-Huh, Scarecrow, The Lonesome Jubilee, Big Daddy, Whenever We Wanted, Human Wheels, Dance Naked, Mr. Happy Go Lucky, John Mellencamp, Rough Harvest, Cuttin' Heads, Trouble No More, and Freedom's Road. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by John Cougar Mellencamp.

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About Lyrics and Sad Lady by John Cougar Mellencamp

The lyrics to Sad Lady are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that John Cougar Mellencamp used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Sad Lady have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only John Cougar Mellencamp and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Sad Lady by John Cougar Mellencamp. 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 Sad Lady" means the words set to the music of Sad Lady, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Cougar Mellencamp. 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 Sad Lady and the lyrics to Sad Lady are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Cougar Mellencamp who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sad Lady, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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