Lyrics to
Oh Claire

This version of Oh Claire was released by Cheap Trick in 1978.

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Whoa, ohh, konnichiwa
Whoa, ohh, konnichiwa

Ohh, oh, konnichiwa
Konnichiwa

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About Lyrics and Oh Claire by Cheap Trick

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

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