Lyrics to
Six White Horses

This version of Six White Horses was released by Waylon Jennings in 1971.

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Come here and look through the window over he
Open up the shatters tell me watch you see
Was that his knock that I heard at the door
Or is it six white horses coming down the road.

Come here and touch me and say that it’s all right
You know that to my eyes the days are as the the nights
Read again the letter that tells me that he’s gone
To hell with the fighting I want my son home.

I taught him to fish and I taught him to be strong
Taught him that killing any man is wrong
But tomorrow in battle I’d run to where he stood
If the help of a blind man do any good.

Last night I went to this room for a while
I touched all the things that he used as a child
I rock the cradle where he used to lay
I’d found these tin soldiers and threw them away.

Come here and look through the window over he
Open up the shatters tell me watch you see
Was that his knock that I heard at the door
Or is it six white horses coming down the road…

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About Lyrics and Six White Horses by Waylon Jennings

When you decide to study the lyrics to Six White Horses, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Waylon Jennings. Some of the lyrics to Six White Horses have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Waylon Jennings and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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