Lyrics to
Old Cape Cod

Released by Bette Midler in 1976
From the Album: Songs For The New Depression |

This version of Old Cape Cod was released by Bette Midler in 1976.

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If you’re fond of sand dunes and salty air,
quaint little villages here and there,
you’re sure to fall in love with Old Cape Cod.

If you like the taste of a lobster stew
served by a window with an ocean view,
you’re sure to fall in love with Old Cape Cod.

Winding roads that seem to beckon you.
Miles of green beneath the skies of blue.
Church bells chimin’ on a sunday morn
remind you of the town where you were born.

If you spend an evening you’ll want to stay,
watching the moonlight on Old Cape Cod bay.
You’re sure to fall in love with Old Cape Cod.

If you spend an evening you’ll want to stay,
watching the moonlight on Old Cape Cod bay.
You’re sure to fall in love with Old Cape Cod.

You’re sure to fall in love, in love, in love.
You’re sure to fall in love, in love,
with Old Cape Cod, Old Cape Cod.


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Bette Midler has released many songs over the years besides Old Cape Cod. Bette Midler released songs from 1972 to 2006 spanning across albums like The Divine Miss M, Bette Midler, Songs For The New Depression, Broken Blossom, Live At Last, Thighs And Whispers, The Rose, Divine Madness, No Frills, Mud Will Be Flung Tonight!, Beaches, Some People's Lives, For The Boys, Gypsy, Bette Of Roses, Bathhouse Betty, Bette, Bette Midler Sings The Rosemary Clooney Songbook, Bette Midler Sings The Peggy Lee Songbook, and Cool Yule. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bette Midler.

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About Lyrics and Old Cape Cod by Bette Midler

The lyrics to Old Cape Cod are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Bette Midler used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Old Cape Cod have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Bette Midler and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

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If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Old Cape Cod by Bette Midler. 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 Old Cape Cod" means the words set to the music of Old Cape Cod, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bette Midler. 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 Old Cape Cod and the lyrics to Old Cape Cod are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bette Midler who came here looking just for the lyrics to Old Cape Cod, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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