Lyrics to
Wandering

This version of Wandering was released by James Taylor in 1975.

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I’ve been wandering early and late from New York City to the Golden Gate,
and it don’t look like I’ll ever stop my wandering.

My daddy was an engineer, my brother drives a hack,
my sister takes in laundry while the baby balls the jack,
and it don’t look like I’ll ever stop my wandering.

I’ve been in the army, I’ve worked on a farm
and all I’ve got to show is the muscle in my arm,
and it don’t look like I’ll ever stop my wandering.

My ma, she died when I was young, my daddy took to stealing and he got hung,
and it don’t look like I’ll ever stop my wandering.

Snakes in the ocean, eels in the sea, I let a redheaded woman make a fool out of me,
and it don’t look like I’ll ever stop my wandering.

I’ve been wandering early and late from the New York City to the Golden Gate,
and it don’t look like I’ll ever stop my wandering.
No, it don’t look like I’ll ever stop my wandering.

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The lyrics to Wandering are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that James Taylor used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to Wandering have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only James Taylor and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Wandering by James Taylor. 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 Wandering" means the words set to the music of Wandering, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by James Taylor. 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 Wandering and the lyrics to Wandering are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of James Taylor who came here looking just for the lyrics to Wandering, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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