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Sweet Marie

This version of Sweet Marie was released by Thin Lizzy in 1976.

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Sweet Marie you mean a lot to me
In my memory I hold you very dearly
Once in all my dreams, my plans, hopes and future schemes
There was sweet Marie

But my home is where my heart is
And my heart is not at home
Whenever we are parted
I feel so all alone

With twilight falling
The moon is calling sweet Marie
What the sea tells only sea shells
Are whispering sweet Marie

Into the darkness goes this message sweet Marie
Some lovers are sometimes parted
They must end what they have started
All that’s left is the broken hearted, I must depart my sweet Marie

Somewhere out in Arizona
Such a long way from California
I felt so alone there
I was two thousand miles away from home there

Tonight we’re going to play Boston
I still don’t know what the hell is going on
Oh but I wrote this song
To keep me thinking on about my sweet Marie

Sweet Marie you mean a lot to me
This melody it keeps haunting me
My sweet Marie
In harmony, it’s will me constantly, sweet Marie

But my home is where my heart is
My heart it’s not at home
Now that we are parted
I feel so all alone

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The lyrics for Sweet Marie are defined as the words making up the song released by Thin Lizzy in 1976. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Sweet Marie have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Thin Lizzy and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Sweet Marie by Thin Lizzy if you think through it. 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 Marie" means the words set to the music of Sweet Marie, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Thin Lizzy. 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 Marie and the lyrics to Sweet Marie are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Thin Lizzy who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sweet Marie, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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