Lyrics to
Charley’s Girl

This version of Charley’S Girl was released by Lou Reed in 1975.

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Everybody said that you’d better watch out
Man, she’s gonna turn you in
And me, you know that I thought that I looked out
Now look at the trouble that I’m in
you know, you’d better –

Watch out for Charley’s girl
Watch out for Charley’s girl
Watch out for Charley’s girl
Watch out for Charley’s girl

It happened on New Year’s Eve
They said everybody had to leave
They had a warrant in their hand
They wanted to bust the whole band
I said if I ever see Sharon again
I’m gonna punch her face in
you know you, you’d better –

Watch out for Charley’s girl
hey, now, now
Watch out for Charley’s girl
you know she’ll turn you, turn you in
Watch out for Charley’s girl
Watch out for Charley’s girl
she’ll turn you in you’d better, huhh –
Watch out, you’d better –
watch out, you’d better –
You’d better watch out, you’d better
you’d better watch out for –
Charley’s girl

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The lyrics for Charley’S Girl are defined as the words making up the song released by Lou Reed in 1975. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Charley’S Girl have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Lou Reed 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 Charley’S Girl by Lou Reed 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 Charley’S Girl" means the words set to the music of Charley’S Girl, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Lou Reed. 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 Charley’S Girl and the lyrics to Charley’S Girl are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Lou Reed who came here looking just for the lyrics to Charley’S Girl, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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