Lyrics to
Three Angels

This version of Three Angels was released by Bob Dylan in 1970.

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Three angels up above the street
Each one playing a horn
Dressed in green robes with wings that stick out
They’re been there since Christmas morn’
The wildest cat from Montana passes by in a flash
Then a lady in a bright orange dress
One U-Haul trailer, a truck with no wheels
The Tenth Avenue bus going west
The dogs and pigeons fly up and they flutter around
A man with a badge skips by
Three fellows crawling on their way back to work
Nobody stops to ask why
The bakery truck stops outside of that fence
Where the angels stand high on their poles
The driver peeks out, trying to find one face
In this concrete world full of souls
The angels play on their horns all day
The whole earth in progressions seems to pass by
But does anyone hear the music they play ?
Does anyone even try ?

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About Lyrics and Three Angels by Bob Dylan

The lyrics for Three Angels are defined as the words making up the song released by Bob Dylan in 1970. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Three Angels have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Bob Dylan 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 Three Angels by Bob Dylan 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 Three Angels" means the words set to the music of Three Angels, 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 Three Angels and the lyrics to Three Angels 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 Three Angels, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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