Lyrics to
Summer Rain

This version of Summer Rain was released by Chris De Burgh in 1977.

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Old man walking by the sea is dreaming,
Dreaming of the days when he was young,
Hand in hand, a little boy beside him,
Hearing about the weekends under the sun…
“Ah most of all I remember,
A little song we used to play,
It was about the english weather,
Always raining on a sunny day, and it went

Ah la la la, summer rain is pouring down again,
And it’s getting wetter,
As a matter of fact it couldn’t be better,
For baby and me, sitting on my knees, (with baby on my knee)
Ah la la la, summer rain is falling down,
On my umbrella above me,
The very first time she said she loved me,
Was in the summer rain, and it’s fine with me…
Walking with your great-grandfather’s daughter,
Somehow we were always late for tea,
And small boys making mischief in the water,
Watching deck-chairs floating away out to sea,
Ah but now the memory’s fading,
How the past just slips away,
But every time that it starts raining,
I can hear the band begin to play,

Ah la la la, summer rain is pouring down again,
And it’s getting wetter,
As a matter of fact it couldn’t be better,
For baby and me, sitting on my knees, (with baby on my knee)
Ah la la la, summer rain is falling down,
On my umbrella above me, (above me)
The very first time she said she loved me,
Was in the summer rain, and it’s fine with me, me, la la la
Summer rain is fine with me…
Ah la la la, summer rain is pouring down again,
And it’s getting wetter,
As a matter of fact it couldn’t be better,
For baby and me, sitting on my knees, (with baby on my knee)
Ah la la la …”

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About Lyrics and Summer Rain by Chris De Burgh

The lyrics to Summer Rain are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Chris De Burgh used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Summer Rain have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Chris De Burgh 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 Summer Rain by Chris De Burgh. 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 Summer Rain" means the words set to the music of Summer Rain, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chris De Burgh. 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 Summer Rain and the lyrics to Summer Rain are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chris De Burgh who came here looking just for the lyrics to Summer Rain, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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