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Second Hand Rose (From Barbra And Other Musical Instruments)

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Every one knows
I’m second hand Rose
From Second Avenue
I got rhythm, I got rhythm, I got rhythm
I got rhythm, I got rhythm, I got rhythm
I got rhythm, oh… oh…

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Second Hand Rose (From Barbra And Other Musical Instruments), you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Barbra Streisand. Some of the lyrics to Second Hand Rose (From Barbra And Other Musical Instruments) have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Barbra Streisand and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Second Hand Rose (From Barbra And Other Musical Instruments) 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 Second Hand Rose (From Barbra And Other Musical Instruments)" means the words set to the music of Second Hand Rose (From Barbra And Other Musical Instruments), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Barbra Streisand. 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 Second Hand Rose (From Barbra And Other Musical Instruments) and the lyrics to Second Hand Rose (From Barbra And Other Musical Instruments) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Barbra Streisand who came here looking just for the lyrics to Second Hand Rose (From Barbra And Other Musical Instruments), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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