Lyrics to
Be My Girl

This version of Be My Girl was released by The Police in 1978.

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Won’t you be my girl
Won’t you be my girl
Won’t you be my, be my,
Be my girl

Won’t you be my girl
Won’t you be my girl
Won’t you be my, be my,
Be my girl

Won’t you be my girl
Won’t you be my girl
Won’t you be my, be my,
Be my girl

Won’t you be my girl
Won’t you be my girl
Won’t you be my, be my,
Be my girl

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About Lyrics and Be My Girl by The Police

The lyrics to Be My Girl are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Police used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Be My Girl have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Police 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 Be My Girl by The Police. 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 Be My Girl" means the words set to the music of Be My Girl, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Police. 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 Be My Girl and the lyrics to Be My Girl are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Police who came here looking just for the lyrics to Be My Girl, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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