Lyrics to
Sweet Maree

This version of Sweet Maree was released by The Steve Miller Band in 1976.

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Sweet Maree
She came walking up to me
She was moving kind of slow

Sweet Maree came walking up to me
She moving kind of slow
Said Maree, well, what can the trouble be
She said just don’t know
Just don’t know
Oh, got something worrying me
Oh, moving slow
Yeah
Yeah

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About Lyrics and Sweet Maree by The Steve Miller Band

The lyrics to Sweet Maree are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Steve Miller Band used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Sweet Maree have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Steve Miller Band and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Sweet Maree by The Steve Miller Band. 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 Maree" means the words set to the music of Sweet Maree, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Steve Miller 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 Maree and the lyrics to Sweet Maree are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Steve Miller Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sweet Maree, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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