Lyrics to
Madelaine

This version of Madelaine was released by Nazareth in 1972.

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Standing watching a pale blue moon,
Rising slowly in the winter sky,
Waiting, hoping she’ll be home soon,
And I won’t ask her where or why.

As the evening shadows fall,
Madelaine, Madelaine
I can hear the night wind call,
Call her name, Madelaine.

Turning slowly I hear her call,
Echo softly through the silver pines,
Walking home the first snowflake falls,
Still, she’s always on my mind.

As the evening shadows fall,
Madelaine, Madelaine
I can hear the night wind call,
Call her name, Madelaine.

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Nazareth has released many songs over the years besides Madelaine. Nazareth released songs from 1971 to 1998 spanning across albums like Nazareth, Excercises, Razamanaz, Loud 'N' Proud, Rampant, Hair Of The Dog, Play 'N' The Game, Close Enough For Rock 'N' Roll, Expect No Mercy, No Mean City, Malice In Wonderland, The Fool Circle, 2XS, Sound Elixir, The Catch, Cinema, Snakes 'N' Ladders, No Jive, From The Vaults, Move Me, and Boogaloo. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Nazareth.

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About Lyrics and Madelaine by Nazareth

The lyrics for Madelaine are defined as the words making up the song released by Nazareth in 1972. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Madelaine have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Nazareth 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 Madelaine by Nazareth 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 Madelaine" means the words set to the music of Madelaine, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Nazareth. 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 Madelaine and the lyrics to Madelaine are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Nazareth who came here looking just for the lyrics to Madelaine, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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