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Sleeping Village/A Bit Of Finger

This version of Sleeping Village/A Bit Of Finger was released by Black Sabbath in 1970.

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Red sun rising in the sky
Sleeping village, cockerels cry
Soft breeze blowing in the trees
peace of mind, feel at ease

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The lyrics to Sleeping Village/A Bit Of Finger are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Black Sabbath used when the song was created in 1970. The lyrics to Sleeping Village/A Bit Of Finger have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Black Sabbath and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

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

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