Lyrics to
We Can Sing

This version of We Can Sing was released by Don Williams in 1977.

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I want to be a worker, I want to sing and pray
I never want to be a stumbling block along the way
But in the hour of living so many people say
They all have all the answers but they all have different ways.

But we can sing glory hallelujah, brother
We can sing if we put our hearts together
If we pray no one really has to tell us what to say
Maybe we can really find the way.

Well, I hope it comes together instead of all apart
‘Cause the better things of living are written in our hearts
But on the stage this morning the trouble is the star
Happiness is measured by houses and our cars.

But we can sing glory hallelujah, brother
We can sing if we put our hearts together
If we pray no one really has to tell us what to say
Maybe we can really find the way.

But we can sing glory hallelujah, brother
We can sing if we put our hearts together
If we pray no one really has to tell us what to say
Maybe we can really find the way.

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About Lyrics and We Can Sing by Don Williams

When you decide to study the lyrics to We Can Sing, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Don Williams. Some of the lyrics to We Can Sing have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Don Williams and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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