Lyrics to
Slow Down Old World

This version of Slow Down Old World was released by Willie Nelson in 1973.

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Slow down slow down old world
There’s no hurry cause
My life ain’t mine anymore
I lived too fast
Now it’s too late to worry
And I’m too blue to cry anymore
I once was a fool for the women
Now I’m just a fool nothing more
So slow down slow down old world
There’s no hurry cause
My life ain’t mine anymore

I once had a way with the women
Till one got away with my heart
So slow down slow down old world
There’s no hurry cause
My life ain’t mine anymore
Cause my life ain’t mine anymore

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The lyrics for Slow Down Old World are defined as the words making up the song released by Willie Nelson in 1973. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Slow Down Old World have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Willie Nelson and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Slow Down Old World by Willie Nelson if you think through it. 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 Slow Down Old World" means the words set to the music of Slow Down Old World, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Willie Nelson. 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 Slow Down Old World and the lyrics to Slow Down Old World are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Willie Nelson who came here looking just for the lyrics to Slow Down Old World, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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