Lyrics to
Walkin’ Back To Georgia

This version of Walkin’ Back To Georgia was released by Jim Croce in 1972.

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I’m walkin’ back to Georgia
And I hope she will take me back
Nothin’ in my pockets
And all I own is upon my back

But she’s the girl who said she loved me
On that hot dusty Macon road
And if she’s still around
I’m gonna settle down
With that hard lovin’ Georgia girl

I’m walkin’ back to Georgia
She’s the only one who knows
How it feels when you lose a dream
And how it feels when you dream alone

Georgia can you hear me callin’
Oh I’ll be home in just a while
And if I had to I’d be crawlin’
Just to share another mornin’ smile

But you’re the girl who said you loved me
On that hot dusty long ago
And if you’re still around
I’m gonna settle down
With you my hard lovin’ Georgia girl…because

I’m walkin’ back to Georgia
And I hope she will take me back
Nothin’ in my pockets
And all I own is upon my back

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Walkin’ Back To Georgia, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Jim Croce. Some of the lyrics to Walkin’ Back To Georgia have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Jim Croce and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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