Lyrics to
Southern Woman

Released by Styx in 1974
From the Album: Man Of Miracles |

This version of Southern Woman was released by Styx in 1974.

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first met you in a southern town
on a warm November day
you made me smoke like a whirlwind
I knew we had nothing to say
love me but don’t try and make me stay

southern woman
take my soul but don’t you take my life
southern woman
make me feel good but don’t you tell my wife

once again in the early spring
I touched your raven’s crown
your wild eyed stories of rare delight
like to knock me down
it’s getting so damn hard to put you down

southern woman
take my soul but don’t you take my life
southern woman
make me feel good but don’t you tell my wife

southern woman
take my soul but don’t you take my life
southern woman
make me feel good but don’t you tell my wife

southern woman
take my soul but don’t you take my life
southern woman
make me feel good but don’t you tell my wife

southern woman
yeah


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Styx has released many songs over the years besides Southern Woman. Styx released songs from 1972 to 2005 spanning across albums like Styx, Styx II, The Serpent Is Rising, Man Of Miracles, Equinox, Crystal Ball, The Grand Illusion, Pieces Of Eight, Cornerstone, Paradise Theater, Kilroy Was Here, Caught In The Act, Edge Of The Century, Return To Paradise, Brave New World, and Big Bang Theory. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Styx.

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About Lyrics and Southern Woman by Styx

The lyrics for Southern Woman are defined as the words making up the song released by Styx in 1974. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Southern Woman have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Styx and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

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

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