Lyrics to
Sweet Life

This version of Sweet Life was released by Barry Manilow in 1973.

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Mamma can you hear me
Mamma can you hear me

I’m going to be a farmer
Blowing the fields in the morning sun
I’ll have a millon horses
Take me a ride when the work is done
I’m going to have a sweet life
Sweetest life you ever seen
And when the day is over
Going to go to sleep in the field of green

Mamma can you hear me
Mamma can you hear me
Daddy do you know what I mean
Mamma can you hear me
Mamma can you hear me
Daddy do you know what I mean

Going to be a acter
Playing a part in a light of gold
Oh yes I will
I’m going to make a lot of money
Going to spend it all before I get to old
And I’m going to have a sweet life
Sweetest life you ever seen
And you know when the day is over now
I’m going to go to sleep in a field of green

Mamma can you hear me
Mamma can you hear me
Daddy do you know what I mean
Mamma can you hear me
Mamma can you hear me
Daddy do you know what I mean
Mamma can you hear me
Mamma can you hear me
Mamma can you hear me
Daddy do you know what I mean
Mamma can you hear me
Mamma can you hear me
Mamma can you hear me
Daddy do you know what I mean
Got,got, got to have a sweet life
Got to have a sweet life
Daddy do you know what I mean
Mamma can you hear me
Mamma can you hear me
Mamma can you hear me
Daddy do you know what I mean

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Barry Manilow has released many songs over the years besides Sweet Life. 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 Sweet Life by Barry Manilow

When you decide to study the lyrics to Sweet Life, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Barry Manilow. Some of the lyrics to Sweet Life have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Barry Manilow and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Sweet Life if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Sweet Life" means the words set to the music of Sweet Life, 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 Sweet Life and the lyrics to Sweet Life 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 Sweet Life, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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