Lyrics to
Sneakin’ Around

This version of Sneakin’ Around was released by Don Williams in 1977.

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Saturday evening your honey and you,
Lay back on the sofa watching the tube.
The telephone rings, you jump to your feet,
Don’t answer that honey I know it’s for me.

Sneaking around, sneaking around,
Midnight romances the wrong side of town.
You build it all up and you tear it all down
Ain’t no good can come from your sneaking around.

You put on your coat and sweetly you smile,
You say you’re gonna step out for a while.
Down to the tavern for just one or two.
She knows where you’re going ‘Cause she ain’t no fool.

Sneaking around, sneaking around,
Midnight romances the wrong side of town.
You build it all up and you tear it all down
Ain’t no good can come from your sneaking around.

It’s 3 in the morning as you stumble in,
She ain’t there to ask you where have you been.
The house is all empty, she’s nowhere around,
She got too lonely from your sneaking around.

Sneaking around, sneaking around,
Midnight romances the wrong side of town.
You build it all up and you tear it all down
Ain’t no good can come from your sneaking around.

Sneaking around, sneaking around,
Midnight romances the wrong side of town.
You build it all up and you tear it all down
Ain’t no good can come from your sneaking around…

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About Lyrics and Sneakin’ Around by Don Williams

The lyrics for Sneakin’ Around are defined as the words making up the song released by Don Williams in 1977. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Sneakin’ Around have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Don Williams 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 Sneakin’ Around by Don Williams 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 Sneakin’ Around" means the words set to the music of Sneakin’ Around, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Don Williams. 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 Sneakin’ Around and the lyrics to Sneakin’ Around are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Don Williams who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sneakin’ Around, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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