Lyrics to
You’ve Got A Hold On Me

This version of You’Ve Got A Hold On Me was released by Don Williams in 1978.

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Another lonely night
And every passing hour
Makes it harder to fight
I’m still under your power.

You’ve got a hold on me
Won’t let me be
You’re not even here
I’m in love with the memory.

Another morning alone
I don’t even remember
How many battles you’ve won
And I can’t even surrender.

You’ve got a hold on me
Won’t let me be
You’re not even here
I’m in love with the memory.

Another day with the blues
Don’t know how I’ll get through it
I’ve got your memory to lose
And I don’t know how to do it.

You’ve got a hold on me
Won’t let me be
You’re not even here
I’m in love with the memory.

You’ve got a hold on me
Won’t let me be
You’re not even here
I’m in love with the memory…

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About Lyrics and You’Ve Got A Hold On Me by Don Williams

The lyrics for You’Ve Got A Hold On Me are defined as the words making up the song released by Don Williams in 1978. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to You’Ve Got A Hold On Me have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Don Williams 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 You’Ve Got A Hold On Me by Don Williams 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 You’Ve Got A Hold On Me" means the words set to the music of You’Ve Got A Hold On Me, 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 You’Ve Got A Hold On Me and the lyrics to You’Ve Got A Hold On Me 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 You’Ve Got A Hold On Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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