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Why, Why, Why

Released by Dolly Parton in 1970
From the Album: As Long As I Love |

This version of Why, Why, Why was released by Dolly Parton in 1970.

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Why why why did you say goodbye
Why did you walk out on me
Cry cry cry I feel like I could die
Why did you go and leave me lonely
What did I do
What did I say
To make you just walk out and leave me this way
Please come back and tell me
What I did wrong
And I’ll make it up to you
If you’ll just come back home

I’ll try try try as each day goes by
To make you glad that you came back to me
No more good-byes and no more tears to cry
Every day I’ll try to make you happy

What did I do
What did I say
To make you just walk out and leave me this way
Please come back and tell me
What I did wrong
And I’ll make it up to you
If you’ll just come back home

I’ll try try try as each day goes by
To make you glad that you came back to me
No more good-byes and no more tears to cry
Every day I’ll try to make you happy


Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides Why, Why, Why. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

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About Lyrics and Why, Why, Why by Dolly Parton

When you decide to study the lyrics to Why, Why, Why, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Dolly Parton. Some of the lyrics to Why, Why, Why have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Dolly Parton and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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