Lyrics to
Sweet Louisiana

This version of Sweet Louisiana was released by The Charlie Daniels Band in 1976.

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Well, I thought I’d go out to Tulsa
And ride in a rodeo
Red beans and rice sure would be nice
Back where the Mississippi River flows

And it’s a long way back to Vicksburg
Mississippi River is muddy and wide
But it don’t seem like much
When sweet Louisiana’s waitin’ on the other side

Well, there’s a lot of room up in Canada
Where a man can catch his breath
But the men are bold and the women are cold
And you damn near freeze to death

And it’s a long way back to Vicksburg
Mississippi River is muddy and wide
But it don’t seem like much
When sweet Louisiana’s waitin’ on the other side

There’s pretty girls in Kansas City
And a man can have a ball
But the women in Ouachita Parish
Drive a young man up the wall

And it’s a long way back to Vicksburg
Mississippi River is muddy and wide
But it don’t seem like much
When sweet Louisiana’s waitin’ on the other side

Well, I thought I’d go out to Tulsa
And ride in a rodeo
Red beans and rice sure would be nice
Back where the Mississippi River flows

And it’s a long way back to Vicksburg
Mississippi River is muddy and wide
But it don’t seem like much
When sweet Louisiana’s waitin’ on the other side

‘Cause it don’t seem like much
When sweet Louisiana’s waitin’ on the other side

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The Charlie Daniels Band has released many songs over the years besides Sweet Louisiana. The Charlie Daniels Band released songs from 1971 to 2002 spanning across albums like Charlie Daniels, Fire On The Mountain, Nightrider, High Lonesome, Saddle Tramp, Midnight Wind, Million Mile Reflections, Full Moon, Homesick Heroes, Fiddle Fire - 25 Years Of The Charlie Daniels Band, Road Dogs, and Redneck Fiddlin' Man. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Charlie Daniels Band.

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About Lyrics and Sweet Louisiana by The Charlie Daniels Band

When you decide to study the lyrics to Sweet Louisiana, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by The Charlie Daniels Band. Some of the lyrics to Sweet Louisiana have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Charlie Daniels Band and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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