Lyrics to
Yesterday’s Wine

This version of Yesterday’S Wine was released by Willie Nelson in 1971.

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Miracles appear
In the strangest of places
Fancy meeting you here
The last time I saw you
Was just out of Houston
Sit down let me buy you a beer
Your presence is welcome
With me and my friend here
This is a hangout of mine
We come here quite often
And listen to music
Partaking of yesterday’s wine
Yesterday’s wine
I’m yesterday’s wine
Aging with time
Like yesterday’s wine
Yesterday’s wine
We’re yesterday’s wine
Aging with time
Like yesterday’s wine

You give the appearence
Of one widely travelled
I’ll bet you’ve seen
Things in your time
So sit down beside me
And tell me your story
If you think
You’ll like yesterday’s wine
Yesterday’s wine
We’re yesterday’s wine
Aging with time
Like yesterday’s wine

Yesterday’s wine
We’re yesterday’s wine
Aging with time
Like yesterday’s wine

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Willie Nelson has released many songs over the years besides Yesterday’S Wine. Willie Nelson released songs from 1962 to 2005 spanning across albums like And Then I Wrote, Here's Willie Nelson, Country Willie - His Own Songs, Country Favorites - Willie Nelson Style, The Party's Over And Other Great Willie Nelson Songs, Make Way For Willie Nelson, Good Times, My Own Peculiar Way, Both Sides Now, Laying My Burdens Down, Yesterday's Wine, Willie Nelson And Family, The Words Don't Fit The Picture, The Willie Way, Shotgun Willie, and Countryman. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Willie Nelson.

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About Lyrics and Yesterday’S Wine by Willie Nelson

The lyrics for Yesterday’S Wine are defined as the words making up the song released by Willie Nelson in 1971. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Yesterday’S Wine have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Willie Nelson and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Yesterday’S Wine by Willie Nelson if you think through it. 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 Yesterday’S Wine" means the words set to the music of Yesterday’S Wine, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Willie Nelson. 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 Yesterday’S Wine and the lyrics to Yesterday’S Wine are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Willie Nelson who came here looking just for the lyrics to Yesterday’S Wine, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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