Lyrics to
Thirsty Boots

This version of Thirsty Boots was released by John Denver in 1977.

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You’ve long been on the open road and sleeping in the rain,
from dirty words and muddy cells, your clothes are soiled and stained.
But the dirty words and muddy cells will soon be judged insane.
So only stop and rest yourself, and you’ll be off again.
Oh, take off your thirsty boots and stay for awhile.
Your feet are hot and weary from the dusty miles.
And maybe I can make you laugh and maybe I can try.
Just looking for the evening and the morning in your eyes.

Then tell me of the ones you saw as far as you could see,
across the plains from field to town, marching to be free.
And of the rusted prison gates that tumble by debris,
like laughing children, one by one, they look like you and me.
Oh, take off your thirsty boots and stay for awhile.
Your feet are hot and weary from the dusty miles.
And maybe I can make you laugh and maybe I can try.
Just looking for the evening and the morning in your eyes.

I know you are no stranger, now, to crooked rainbow trails,
from dancing cliffheads to shattered sills to slander shackled jails.
Where the voices drift up from below, his walls are being scaled.
Yes all of this, and more my friend, your song shall not be failed.
Oh, take off your thirsty boots and stay for awhile.
Your feet are hot and weary from the dusty miles.
And maybe I can make you laugh and maybe I can try.
Just looking for the evening and the morning in your eyes.
Take off your thirsty boots and stay for awhile.
Your feet are hot and weary from the dusty miles.
And maybe I can make you laugh and maybe I can try.
Just looking for the evening and the morning in your eyes.

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About Lyrics and Thirsty Boots by John Denver

When you decide to study the lyrics to Thirsty Boots, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by John Denver. Some of the lyrics to Thirsty Boots have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only John Denver and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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