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Vigilante Man

This version of Vigilante Man was released by Nazareth in 1973.

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Have you seen that vigilante man
Have you seen that vigilante man
Have you seen that vigilante man
I’ve been hearin’ his name all over this land
Lonely nights down in the engine house
Sleepin’ just as still as a mouse
Man comes home, chase the crowds in the rain
That’s a vigilante man
Vigilante man
Vigilante man
Well I ramble around from town to town
Ramble ’round from town to town
And they hunted us a while like a wild herd of cattle
That’s a vigilante man
Tell me why does that vigilante man
Tell me why does that vigilante man
Carry that sawed off shotgun in his hand
Would he shoot his brother and sister down
Have you seen that vigilante man
Have you seen that vigilante man
Have you seen that vigilante man
I’ve been hearin’ his name all over this land
Vigilante man
Vigilante man
Vigilante man
Vigilante man
Vigilante man
Vigilante man

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Vigilante Man, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Nazareth. Some of the lyrics to Vigilante Man have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Nazareth and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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