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Sweet Black Angel

This version of Sweet Black Angel was released by The Rolling Stones in 1972.

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Got a sweet black angel,
Got a pin up girl,
Got a sweet black angel,
Up upon my wall.
Well, she ain’t no singer
And she ain’t no star,
But she sure talk good,
And she move so fast.
But the gal in danger,
Yeah, de gal in chains,
But she keep on pushin’,
Would ya take her place?
She countin’ up de minutes,
She countin’ up de days,
She’s a sweet black angel, woh,
Not a sweet black slave.
Ten little niggers
Sittin’ on de wall,
Her brothers been a fallin’,
Fallin’ one by one.
For a judges murder
In a judges court,
Now de judge he gonna judge her
For all dat he’s worth.
Well de gal in danger,
De gal in chains,
But she keep on pushin’
Would you do the same?
She countin’ up de minutes,
She countin’ up de days,
She’s a sweet black angel,
Not a gun toting teacher,
Not a Red lovin’ school mom,
Ain’t someone gonna free her,
Free de sweet black slave,
Free de sweet black slave.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Sweet Black Angel, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by The Rolling Stones. Some of the lyrics to Sweet Black Angel have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Rolling Stones and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Sweet Black Angel 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 Sweet Black Angel" means the words set to the music of Sweet Black Angel, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Rolling Stones. 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 Sweet Black Angel and the lyrics to Sweet Black Angel are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Rolling Stones who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sweet Black Angel, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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