Lyrics to
Sweet Mama

This version of Sweet Mama was released by The Allman Brothers Band in 1975.

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Sweet mama, lay your burden down,
Sweet mama, lay your burden down,
Just let me tell you ’bout some truth in life I’ve found,
Sweet mama, lord. set yourself right down.
Lord, pride, it ain’t worth a US dime, lord no,
Well pride, it ain’t worth a poor man’s time
And it’s misery to be so jealous all the time
Sweet mama, lord, be kind to your mind.
Sweet mama, lay your burden down,
Oh sweet mama, lord lay them trophies down,
You know it ain’t no good to be givin’ me that same old run-around,
Cause sweet mama, lay your burden down.
Sweet mama, lord, you’re so feelin’ fine
And I know that you think this is just a line,
But I only put these words into this little song,
To try, lord, and help us get along.

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The Allman Brothers Band has released many songs over the years besides Sweet Mama. The Allman Brothers Band released songs from 1969 to 2003 spanning across albums like The Allman Brothers Band, Idlewild South, At Fillmore East, Eat A Peach, Brothers And Sisters, Win, Lose Or Draw, Enlightened Rogues, Reach For The Sky, Brothers Of The Road, Seven Turns, Shades Of Two Worlds, Where It All Begins, and Hittin' The Note. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Allman Brothers Band.

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About Lyrics and Sweet Mama by The Allman Brothers Band

The lyrics for Sweet Mama are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by The Allman Brothers Band. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Sweet Mama 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 Sweet Mama - The Allman Brothers Band 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 Sweet Mama by The Allman Brothers Band 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 Sweet Mama" means the words set to the music of Sweet Mama, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Allman Brothers 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 Mama and the lyrics to Sweet Mama are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Allman Brothers Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sweet Mama, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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