Lyrics to
Sweetwater Jones

Released by Barry Manilow in 1973
From the Album: Barry Manilow I |

This version of Sweetwater Jones was released by Barry Manilow in 1973.

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Sweetwater Jones
Went riding
out in to the country night

he left his phone still ringing
ringing by the t.v.’s light

goodbye to you new york city
goodbye to every thing it used to be

you sure can could look good
Emerald City
oh but now your just a drag on me

goodbye to the ringing phone
goodbye to the old grindstone
and what use to be Jimmy Jones
now they known as Sweetwater Jones

Sweetwater Jones
keep on going
hey Jonese boy your’ll doing find

smiling a smile and knowing
that your heading fore a better time

look at your face
hey its shinning
hey beaming like it never could

look at your eyes
hey you crying
but you never thought you fell so good

goodbye to the ringing phone
good,good,goodbye to the old grindstone
what used to be Jimmy Jones

now they known as Sweetwater Jones
ohhhhhhhh

ohhhhhhhh Sweetwater Jones
what use to be Jimmy Jones
now they known as Sweetwater Jones
now they known as Sweetwater Jones


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Barry Manilow has released many songs over the years besides Sweetwater Jones. Barry Manilow released songs from 1973 to 2008 spanning across albums like Barry Manilow I, Barry Manilow II, Tryin' To Get The Feeling, This One's For You, Even Now, One Voice, Barry, If I Should Love Again, Here Comes The Night, 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe, Manilow, Swing Street, Barry Manilow, Because It's Christmas, Showstoppers, Singing With The Big Bands, Summer Of '78, Manilow Sings Sinatra, Here At The Mayflower, A Christmas Gift Of Love, Scores: Songs From Copacabana And Harmony, The Greatest Songs Of The Fifties, The Greatest Songs Of The Sixties, The Greatest Songs Of The Seventies, In The Swing Of Christmas, and The Greatest Songs Of The Eighties. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Barry Manilow.

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About Lyrics and Sweetwater Jones by Barry Manilow

The lyrics for Sweetwater Jones are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by Barry Manilow. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Sweetwater Jones 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 Sweetwater Jones - Barry Manilow and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Sweetwater Jones by Barry Manilow 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 Sweetwater Jones" means the words set to the music of Sweetwater Jones, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Barry Manilow. 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 Sweetwater Jones and the lyrics to Sweetwater Jones are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Barry Manilow who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sweetwater Jones, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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