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The Moon Struck One

This version of The Moon Struck One was released by The Band in 1971.

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Julie and little John Tyler lived in the house next door
We would be the great triangle and to this we swore
Julie was my sweetheart, little John was my cohort
And all the wild horses in the world couldn’t keep us apart
Once we went for a swim in the noonday sun
And promised to return before the moon struck one

Julie came running through the pasture – she was screaming at the sky
She fell down to her knees and the tears did fly
Little John was stung by a snake over by the lake
And it looked like he s really, really hurt – he was lying in the dirt
Who, we went it as fast as we could run
But we lost little John as the moon struck one

I was vacant, Julie was a bird with a broken wing
We were always afraid of what tomorrow might bring
We’ll drive down to Durango – up and leave this place
And maybe forget the triangle with a change of pace
The car broke down when we had just begun

And we walked back to the house while the moon struck one

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When you decide to study the lyrics to The Moon Struck One, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by The Band. Some of the lyrics to The Moon Struck One have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Band and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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