Lyrics to
Take A Message To Mary

This version of Take A Message To Mary was released by Bob Dylan in 1970.

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These are the words of a frontier man
Who lost his love when he turned bad.

Take a message to Mary
But don’t tell here where I am
Take a message to Mary
But don’t say I’m in a jam
You can tell her that I had to see the world
Tell her that my ship set sail
You can say she’d better not wait for me
But don’t tell her I’m in jail, oh don’t tell her I’m in jail.

Take a message to Mary
But don’t tell her what I’ve done
Please, don’t mention the stage coach
And the shot from a carried gun
You better tell her that I had to change my plans
And cancel out the wedding-day
But please, don’t mention the lonely cell
Where I’m gonna pine away, until my dying-day.

Take a message to Mary
But don’t tell her all you know
My heart is aching for Mary
Lord know I miss her so
Just tell her that I went to Timbukto
Tell her I’m searching for gold
You can say she better find someone new
To cherish and to hold, oh Lord, this cell is so cold.

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About Lyrics and Take A Message To Mary by Bob Dylan

The lyrics for Take A Message To Mary are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by Bob Dylan. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Take A Message To Mary 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 Take A Message To Mary - Bob Dylan 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 Take A Message To Mary by Bob Dylan 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 Take A Message To Mary" means the words set to the music of Take A Message To Mary, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bob Dylan. 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 Take A Message To Mary and the lyrics to Take A Message To Mary are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bob Dylan who came here looking just for the lyrics to Take A Message To Mary, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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