Lyrics to
The Lee Shore

This version of The Lee Shore was released by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby in 1971.

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Wheel gull spin and glide … you’ve got no place to hide
‘Cause you don’t need one
All along the lee shore shells lie scattered in my sin
Winking up like shining eyes at me, from the sea
Here is one like sunrise older than you know
It’s still lying there where some careless wave
Forgot it long ago
When I awoke this morning
Dove beneath my floating home
Down below her graceful side
In the turning tide
To watch the sea fish roam
And there I heard a story
From the sailors of the Sandra Marie
There’s another isle a days’ run away from here
It’s empty and free
From here to Venezuela nothing more to see
Than a hundred thousand islands
Flung like jewels upon the sea
For you and me

Sunset smells of dinner
Women are calling at me to end my tales
But perhaps I’ll see you the next quiet place
I furl my sails

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When you decide to study the lyrics to The Lee Shore, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Stills, Nash & Young Crosby. Some of the lyrics to The Lee Shore have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Stills, Nash & Young Crosby and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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