Lyrics to
Happy Man

This version of Happy Man was released by Chicago in 1974.

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Merely by chance
Very unsuspected
You caught my heart
Unprotectin’ me
Now I’m fallin’ in love with you
Just when I thought
I was free and easy
You came along
To me soft and breezy
Now I’ve fallen in love with you
Woo hoo
I’ve fallen in love with you
And for the first time in my life
I know what it’s like to be a happy man
Happy man
And for the first time in my life
You’ve given me something I can understand
Bein’ a happy man
Be with me now
Love me forever
Leavin’ you lady
Was something that I’d never do
I’ve fallen in love with you
All of my life it seems I have waited
Now I can say all these words I have stated untrue
I’ve fallen in love with you
Woo hoo
Fallen in love with you
Woo hoo

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About Lyrics and Happy Man by Chicago

When you decide to study the lyrics to Happy Man, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Chicago. Some of the lyrics to Happy Man have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Chicago and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Happy Man if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Happy Man" means the words set to the music of Happy Man, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chicago. 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 Happy Man and the lyrics to Happy Man are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chicago who came here looking just for the lyrics to Happy Man, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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