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The Girl With April In Her Eyes

This version of The Girl With April In Her Eyes was released by Chris De Burgh in 1979.

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There once was a king, who called for the spring,
For his world was still covered in snow,
But the spring had not been, for he was wicked and mean,
In his winter-fields nothing would grow;
And when a traveller called seeking help at the door,
Only food and a bed for the night,
He ordered his slave to turn her away,
The girl with April in her eyes…

Oh, oh, oh, on and on she goes,
Through the winter’s night, the wild wind and the snow,
Hi, hi, hi, on and on she rides,
Someone help the girl with April in her eyes…

She rode through the night till she came to the light,
Of a humble man’s home in the woods,
He brought her inside, by the firelight she died,
And he buried her gently and good;
Oh the morning was bright, all the world was snow-white,
But when he came to the place where she lay,
His field was ablaze with flowers on the grave,
Of the girl with April in her eyes…

Oh, oh, oh, on and on she goes,
Through the winter’s night, the wild wind and the snow,
Hi, hi, hi, on and on she flies,
She is gone, the girl with April in her eyes…

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Chris De Burgh has released many songs over the years besides The Girl With April In Her Eyes. Chris De Burgh released songs from 1975 to 2006 spanning across albums like Spanish Train And Other Stories, Far Beyond These Castle Walls, At The End Of A Perfect Day, Crusader, Eastern Wind, The Getaway, Man On The Line, Into The Light, Flying Colours, Power Of Ten, This Way Up, Beautiful Dreams, Quiet Revolution, Timing Is Everything, The Road To Freedom, and The Storyman. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Chris De Burgh.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to The Girl With April In Her Eyes, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Chris De Burgh. Some of the lyrics to The Girl With April In Her Eyes have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Chris De Burgh and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to The Girl With April In Her Eyes 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 The Girl With April In Her Eyes" means the words set to the music of The Girl With April In Her Eyes, 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 The Girl With April In Her Eyes and the lyrics to The Girl With April In Her Eyes 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 The Girl With April In Her Eyes, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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