Lyrics to
Backwards Traveller

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Hey, did you know that i’m
Always going back in time
Rhyming slang, auld lang syne my dears
Through the years
I am the backwards traveller
Ancient wool unraveller
Sailng songs, wailing on the moon

And we were sailing songs, wailing on the moon
Wailing on the moon.

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Paul Mccartney has released many songs over the years besides Backwards Traveller. Paul Mccartney released songs from 1970 to 2007 spanning across albums like McCartney, Ram, Wild Life, Band On The Run, Red Rose Speedway, Venus And Mars, Wings At The Speed Of Sound, London Town, Back To The Egg, McCartney II, Tug Of War, Pipes Of Peace, Give My Regards To Broad Street, Press To Play, CHOBA B CCCP (Back In The USSR), Flowers In The Dirt, Tripping The Live Fantastic, Unplugged (The Official Bootleg), Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, Off The Ground, Flaming Pie, Run Devil Run, Driving Rain, Chaos And Creation In The Backyard, and Memory Almost Full. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Paul Mccartney.

About Lyrics and Backwards Traveller by Paul Mccartney

The lyrics for Backwards Traveller are defined as the words making up the song released by Paul Mccartney in 1978. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Backwards Traveller have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Paul Mccartney 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 Backwards Traveller by Paul Mccartney 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 Backwards Traveller" means the words set to the music of Backwards Traveller, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Paul Mccartney. 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 Backwards Traveller and the lyrics to Backwards Traveller are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Paul Mccartney who came here looking just for the lyrics to Backwards Traveller, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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