Lyrics to
Take Me Back

This version of Take Me Back was released by Dolly Parton in 1974.

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Take me back all precious mem’ries to the days forever gone
I can still remember mama washin’ on the washboard
On the backporch while us kids played in the yard
Mama always seemed to be so happy and content
She never seemed to mind that times were hard
She went about her work singing some old farvorite songs of hers
And often singing favorite songs for us
She was satisfied just being mama to us children
And the only woman daddy ever loved
Take me back to mama’s bossom back to daddy’s loving arms
Take me back all precious mem’ries to the days forever gone

I can still remember us a runnin’ to meet daddy
In the evening when his workin’ day was done
When daddy saw us comin’ he would bend his tired old back
Holdin’ out his arms and into them we’d run
He’d hold us for a minute we’d all walk home together
While mama waited for him at the door
And he was satisfied just being daddy to us children
And the man my mama lived the whole life for
Take me back to mama’s bossom…
Take me back all precious mem’ries to the days forever gone

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides Take Me Back. 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 Take Me Back by Dolly Parton

The lyrics for Take Me Back are defined as the words making up the song released by Dolly Parton in 1974. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Take Me Back have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Dolly Parton 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 Take Me Back by Dolly Parton 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 Take Me Back" means the words set to the music of Take Me Back, 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 Take Me Back and the lyrics to Take Me Back 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 Take Me Back, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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