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Steady Rollin’ Man

Released by Eric Clapton in 1974
From the Album: 461 Ocean Boulevard |

This version of Steady Rollin’ Man was released by Eric Clapton in 1974.

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I am a steady rollin’ man
And I roll both night and day.
I am a steady rollin’ man
And I roll both night and day.
But I ain’t got no sweet woman,
Woo-hoo Lord, to be rollin’ this way.

I am the man that rolls
When icicles are hanging on the tree.
I am the man that rolls
When icicles are hanging on the tree.
Why can’t you hear me begging mama,
Woo-hoo Lord, down on my bended knee?


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When you decide to study the lyrics to Steady Rollin’ Man, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Eric Clapton. Some of the lyrics to Steady Rollin’ Man have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Eric Clapton and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Steady Rollin’ Man if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Steady Rollin’ Man" means the words set to the music of Steady Rollin’ Man, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Eric Clapton. 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 Steady Rollin’ Man and the lyrics to Steady Rollin’ Man are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Eric Clapton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Steady Rollin’ Man, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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