Lyrics to
Saturday Night Special

Released by Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1975
From the Album: Nuthin' Fancy |

This version of Saturday Night Special was released by Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1975.

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Two feets they come a creepin’
Like a black cat do
And two bodies are lyin’ naked
Creeper think he got nothin’ to lose
So he creeps into this house, yeah
And unlocks the door
And while a man reaching for his trousers
Shoots him full of .38 holes

Its a Saturday night special
Got a barrel that’s blue and cold
Ain’t no good for nothin’
But put a man six feet in a hole

Big Jim’s been drinkin’ whiskey
And playing poker on a losin’ night
Pretty soon, Big Jim starts a thinkin’
Somebody been cheatin’ and lyin’
So Big Jim commences to fightin’
I wouldn’t tell you no lie
And Big Jim done grab his pistol
Shot his friend right between the eyes

Hand guns are made for killin’
Ain’t no good for nothin’ else
And if you like your whiskey
You might even shoot yourself
So why don’t we dump ’em people
To the bottom of the sea
Before some fool come around here
Wanna shoot either you or me


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Lynyrd Skynyrd has released many songs over the years besides Saturday Night Special. Lynyrd Skynyrd released songs from 1973 to 2000 spanning across albums like (pronounced 'leh-'nerd 'skin-'nerd), Second Helping, Nuthin' Fancy, Gimme Back My Bullets, Street Survivors, First And... Last., Legend, Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991, The Last Rebel, Endangered Species, Twenty, Edge Of Forever, and Christmas Time Again. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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The lyrics to Saturday Night Special are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Lynyrd Skynyrd used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to Saturday Night Special have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Lynyrd Skynyrd and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

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

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