Lyrics to
Sweet Music Man

This version of Sweet Music Man was released by Dolly Parton in 1977.

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Sing a song sweet music man
‘Cause I won’t be there to hold your hand like I used to
I’m through with you
You’re a heck of a singer and powerful man
But you surround yourself with people
Who demand so little of you

You touched my soul with your beautiful song
You even had me singin’ along right with you
You said I need you
Then you changed the words and added harmony
Then you sang the song you had written for me to someone new

Oh, but nobody sings a love song quite like you do
Oh, and nobody else can make me sing along
Nobody else can make me feel things are right
When I know they’re wrong
Nobody sings a love song quite like you

Sing your song sweet music man
Travel the world with a six piece band
That does for you what you tell ’em to
And you try to stay young but the songs are sung
To so many people who’ve all begun came back on you

Sing your song sad music man
Makin’ your living doing one-night stands
They’re through with you
They don’t need you
You’re still a heck of a singer but a broken man
But you’ll keep on lookin’ for one last fan to sing to
Oh, and nobody sings a love song quite like you do
Oh, and nobody else can make me sing along
And nobody else can make me feel things are right
When they’re wrong with a song
Nobody sings a love song quite like you

Sing your song sweet music man
I believe in you

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides Sweet Music Man. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

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About Lyrics and Sweet Music Man by Dolly Parton

When you decide to study the lyrics to Sweet Music Man, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Dolly Parton. Some of the lyrics to Sweet Music Man have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Dolly Parton and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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