Lyrics to
Star Of The Show

This version of Star Of The Show was released by Dolly Parton in 1979.

Our About Dolly Parton page at Decade Lyrics includes the lyrics for Star Of The Show from 1979 as well as all of the other lyrics from Dolly Parton that we have in our lyrics database.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to Dolly Parton or about the 1970s in general.

We sang a love song the day that we met
You thought that we made the perfect duet
You liked my performance so you wanted to know
If I would stay on as the star of the show
And beautiful music we made for a time ’til she changed our tune
And you added new lines
Our duet arrangement became a trio
Now you want a star, but I just think you should know

I don’t play second fiddle in nobody’s band
And I’m no back-up singer and I won’t be a fan
And I’m nobody’s co-star
I just play leading rolls
And I don’t want the part, don’t want a part
Won’t play a part unless it’s star of the show

Oh, she’s stealing the show that’s been so dear to my heart
She’s changing our song ’til I’m not sure of my part
She sharing the spotlight and there’s not room for both
Now one or the other is the star of the show, the other goes

Life is a show and the show will go on
The world is stage, loves an act we perform
There’s always some new act somewhere up the road
And I’ll always be staring in somebodies’ show

I don’t play second fiddle in nobody’s band
And I’m no back-up singer and I won’t be a fan
And I’m nobody’s co-star
I just play leading rolls
And I don’t want the part, don’t want a part
Won’t play a part unless it’s star of the show

I don’t play second fiddle in nobody’s band
And I’m no back-up singer and I won’t be a fan
And I’m nobody’s co-star
I just play leading rolls
And I don’t want the part, don’t want a part
Won’t play a part unless it’s star of the show

If I don’t star in your show
Well I’m still a star and I can still go
You know I got to be, I got to be the star of the show

---

Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides Star Of The Show. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

If you're a fan of the music of the 1970s looking for more songs from 1979 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and Star Of The Show by Dolly Parton

The lyrics to Star Of The Show are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Dolly Parton in 1979. Elements of the lyrics to Star Of The Show are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Dolly Parton and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Star Of The Show back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Star Of The Show by Dolly Parton in a number of ways. 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 Star Of The Show" means the words set to the music of Star Of The Show, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Dolly Parton. 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 Star Of The Show and the lyrics to Star Of The Show are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Dolly Parton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Star Of The Show, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

More Songs & Lyrics by Dolly Parton

Visit our Dolly Parton profile for more Dolly Parton songs, lyrics & info!

)