Lyrics to
Sunday Father

This version of Sunday Father was released by Barry Manilow in 1979.

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Hand in his hand though the park
All afternoon
A fine day to fly balloons or tell him a story
Hand in his hand to wonder
Till day is done
Sunday father and son
Sundays are there’s to explore
Alone by law
One day to keep the two from turning to strangers
One day to know the answers
Be firm, be fun
Sunday father and son
The father weaves though the weekend streets
Sunday done, monday comin’ on
He leaves the child by a modest home
That they share no more
With the woman who waits indoors
Till she knows he’s gone
Where are the words or the games
A place to go
Someway to let him know you want to be with him
Somehow it’s always ending
Just half begun
Sunday father and son
Sunday father and son

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Barry Manilow has released many songs over the years besides Sunday Father. Barry Manilow released songs from 1973 to 2008 spanning across albums like Barry Manilow I, Barry Manilow II, Tryin' To Get The Feeling, This One's For You, Even Now, One Voice, Barry, If I Should Love Again, Here Comes The Night, 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe, Manilow, Swing Street, Barry Manilow, Because It's Christmas, Showstoppers, Singing With The Big Bands, Summer Of '78, Manilow Sings Sinatra, Here At The Mayflower, A Christmas Gift Of Love, Scores: Songs From Copacabana And Harmony, The Greatest Songs Of The Fifties, The Greatest Songs Of The Sixties, The Greatest Songs Of The Seventies, In The Swing Of Christmas, and The Greatest Songs Of The Eighties. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Barry Manilow.

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About Lyrics and Sunday Father by Barry Manilow

The lyrics for Sunday Father are defined as the words making up the song released by Barry Manilow in 1979. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Sunday Father have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Barry Manilow 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 Sunday Father by Barry Manilow 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 Sunday Father" means the words set to the music of Sunday Father, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Barry Manilow. 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 Sunday Father and the lyrics to Sunday Father are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Barry Manilow who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sunday Father, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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