Lyrics to
Sailor

This version of Sailor was released by Rod Stewart in 1974.

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You ain’t gonna get me honey no way
Tearing down the highway in the pouring rain
escaping from my wedding day
I heard the bells ringing in the local church
the ceremony’s nearly under way
Telegrams came and the cheap champagne
was driving everybody out of their brains
But I convinced my best friends I lost my nerve
and I pleaded I was being framed

“Sailor show me which way to go”
I screamed out loud
“Sailor show me which way to go”

Such a deadly silence
due to my defiance
the wedding ground to a halt
Said I changed my mind
ain’t no use in your trying
so her brother punched me in the throat
her mother got hysterical
the bitch was cynical
father’s in the corner drunk
Picking myself off the floor
I ran to the door
damned if I was skippin’ on my way

“Sailor show me which way to go”
You should have heard the noise
Said “Sailor show me which way to go”

So keep clean girlie
find a man that’s truly
gonna love you from dusk till dawn
Keep your front door key
don’t give him up for me
’cause tomorrow I may be gone
You see, your wouldbe keepers
( ) all night creepin’
nobody gonna change in there
Who thinks a marriage life should be like a dog’s life
so let’s renew it when the year runs out

Sailor show me which way to go
Sailor show me which way to go

She had a belly full of lust but she had no bust

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About Lyrics and Sailor by Rod Stewart

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

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

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