Lyrics to
Saturday Night

This version of Saturday Night was released by Eagles in 1973.

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Seems like a dream now, it was so long ago
The moon burned so bright and the time went so slow
And I swore that I loved her and gave her a ring
The bluebird was high on the wing

Whatever happened to Saturday night
Finding a sweetheart and holding her tight?
She said,”Tell me, oh, tell me, was I all right?”
Whatever happened to Saturday night?

The years brought the railroad
It ran by my door
Now there’s boards on the windows
And dust on the floor
And she passes the time at another man’s side
And I pass the time with my pride

What a tangled web we weave
Go ’round with circumstance
Someone show me how to tell the dancer
From the dance

What ever happened
To Saturday night?
Choosin’ a friend and loosin’ a fight
She said,”Tell me, oh, tell me, are you alright?”
Whatever happened to Saturday night?
Whatever happened to Saturday night?

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Eagles has released many songs over the years besides Saturday Night. Eagles released songs from 1972 to 2007 spanning across albums like The Eagles, Desperado, On The Border, One Of These Nights, Hotel California, The Long Run, Hell Freezes Over, and Long Road Out Of Eden. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Eagles.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Saturday Night, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Eagles. Some of the lyrics to Saturday Night have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Eagles and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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