Lyrics to
Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer)

This version of Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer) was released by Willie Nelson in 1973.

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Can’t go home if you’re goin’ by the mill
Cause the bridge’s washed out
At the bottom of the hill
Big Creek’s up Little Creek’s level
Plow my corn with a double shovel
Stay all night stay a little longer
Dance all night dance a little longer
Pull off your coat throw it in the corner
Don’t see why you can’t stay a little longer

Sittin’ in the window singin’ to my love
Slop bucket fell from the window up above
Mule and the grasshopper eatin’ ice cream
Mule got sick so they laid him on the green
Stay all night stay a little longer
Dance all night dance a little longer
Pull off your coat throw it in the corner
Don’t see why you can’t stay a little longer

Well you ought to see my Blue Eyed Sally
She lives away down on Shinbone Alley
Number on the gate the number on the door
The next house over is the grocery store
Stay all night stay a little longer
Dance all night dance a little longer
Pull off your coat throw it in the corner
Don’t see why you can’t stay a little longer

Stay all night stay a little longer
Dance all night dance a little longer
Pull off your coat throw it in the corner
Don’t see why you can’t stay a little longer
Don’t see why you can’t stay a little longer

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About Lyrics and Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer) by Willie Nelson

The lyrics for Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer) are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by Willie Nelson. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer) have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer) - Willie Nelson and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer) by Willie Nelson in multiple 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 Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer)" means the words set to the music of Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer), 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 Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer) and the lyrics to Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer) 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 Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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