Lyrics to
Parisienne Walkways

This version of Parisienne Walkways was released by Gary Moore in 1978.

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I remember Paris in ’49.
The Champs Elysee, San Michelle
And old Beauolais wine.
And I recall that you were mine
In those Parisienne days.

Looking back at the photographs.
Those summerdays spent outside corner cafes.
Oh, I could write you paragraphs,
About my old Parisienne days.

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About Lyrics and Parisienne Walkways by Gary Moore

The lyrics for Parisienne Walkways are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Gary Moore. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Parisienne Walkways have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Parisienne Walkways by Gary Moore in multiple ways. 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 Parisienne Walkways" means the words set to the music of Parisienne Walkways, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Gary Moore. 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 Parisienne Walkways and the lyrics to Parisienne Walkways are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Gary Moore who came here looking just for the lyrics to Parisienne Walkways, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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