Lyrics to
Travelin’ Man

This version of Travelin’ Man was released by The Doobie Brothers in 1971.

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The sun brings up another day
Near the little fishin’ town
The nets are hung out in the wind
The sails are down
A seagull flies above my head
Spinning slowly towards the sea
He seems so free, and just like me
He rides the wind
I’m a travelin’ man
Nothin’ left behind me but the road
I’m a travelin’ man
Won’t you share the load

Lonesome shepherd in the field ahead
Moonlight flows across the grass
The rocky hills catch the light above
Their shadows cast
Lonely by the day
Drifting late at night
The wind is creepin’ through my ragged coat
What a life

I’m a travelin’ man
Nothin’ left behind me but the road
I’m a travelin’ man
Won’t you share the load

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About Lyrics and Travelin’ Man by The Doobie Brothers

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

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

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