Lyrics to
Why Lord Goodbye

Released by Don Williams in 1974
From the Album: Don Williams, Vol. 3 |

This version of Why Lord Goodbye was released by Don Williams in 1974.

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Walk round town,
Spending my money,
Thinking ’bout you.
Wondering why,
‘Cause you were my honey,
What did I do.

I’m tired, yes
I’m tired,
Why Lord goodbye
I’ve tried, yes
I’ve tried,
Why Lord goodbye.

You made my life,
Oh, so much better,
Bein’ with you
‘Cause since you’ve been gone,
I don’t know whether,
I’ll make it through.

‘Cause I’m tired, yes
I’m tired,
Why Lord goodbye
I’ve tried, yes
I’ve tried,
Why Lord goodbye…


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Don Williams has released many songs over the years besides Why Lord Goodbye. Don Williams released songs from 1973 to 2004 spanning across albums like Don Williams, Vol. 1, Don Williams, Vol. 2, Don Williams, Vol. 3, You're My Best Friend, Harmony, Visions, Country Boy, Expressions, Portrait, I Believe In You, Especially For You, Listen To The Radio, Yellow Moon, Cafe Carolina, New Moves, Traces, One Good Well, Prime Cuts, True Love, Currents, Borrowed Tales, Flatlands, I Turned The Page, and My Heart To You. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Don Williams.

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About Lyrics and Why Lord Goodbye by Don Williams

The lyrics to Why Lord Goodbye are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Don Williams used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Why Lord Goodbye have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Don Williams 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 Why Lord Goodbye by Don Williams. 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 Why Lord Goodbye" means the words set to the music of Why Lord Goodbye, 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 Why Lord Goodbye and the lyrics to Why Lord Goodbye 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 Why Lord Goodbye, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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