Lyrics to
Watching The World

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Pass me the bottle, pass me the wine,
Open your throttle, and I’ll drive you right out of your mind,
Watching the waves, watching the sky,
I’m just sitting down here by the riverside,
Watching the world going by…

She said that she loved me and alway be true,
But she was high above me, there’s only one thing to do,
Bye baby baby bye bye little darling, and now she’s flying blue,
And I’m sitting down here by the riverside,
Watching the world passing through…

Oh yea yea yea Ram bam bi doo ah … Ram bam bi doo ay …
Do you wanna meet my sister, she’s good for a drink or two,
At forty-five smiles to the gallon she can watch the world floating through.

Throw away your city clothes, throw away your suit,
Bring out your city rose, bring the dogs and the cats in the boat, yea yea yea,
You don’t need no shoes, you won’t feel the blues,
When you’re sitting down here by the riverside,
Watching the world passing through…

Oh Ram bam bi doo ah … Ram bam bi doo ay …
Roll one for me brother, eighteen inches long,
And we can lay down here by the riverside,
Smoking and singing this song … oh yea.

Ram bam bi doo ah … Ram bam bi doo ay …
Sitting down here by the riverside,
Watching the world going by…

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Chris De Burgh has released many songs over the years besides Watching The World. 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.

About Lyrics and Watching The World by Chris De Burgh

The lyrics for Watching The World are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Chris De Burgh. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Watching The World 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 Watching The World - Chris De Burgh 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 Watching The World by Chris De Burgh 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 Watching The World" means the words set to the music of Watching The World, 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 Watching The World and the lyrics to Watching The World 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 Watching The World, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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