Lyrics to
Yellow Beach Umbrella

This version of Yellow Beach Umbrella was released by Bette Midler in 1977.

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When I am a flyer, I’ll fly down to Miami,
get a room in one of those big resort hotels.
And nobody there will ever get to know me well.
And nobody there will ever get to know me well.

I’ll be just another yellow beach umbrella
on the shore of the southern sea.
I’ll be a mystery to everyone.
I won’t take you along with me.

When I am a driver, I’ll drive to Pensacola,
sleep in the sand whether the weather
brings sunshine or rain.
And nobody there will ever get to know my name, oh no.
And nobody there will ever get to know my name.

I’ll be just another yellow beach umbrella
on the shore of the southern sea.
Mmm, I’ll be a mystery to everyone.
I won’t take you along with me.

When I am a rider, I’ll ride up to Tempico.
Ohh, don’t telephone honey,
your money’d be wasted on a telegram
’cause nobody there will ever find out who I am.
Nobody there will ever find me!

I’ll be just another big bright umbrella
on the shore of the southern sea.
Gonna be a mystery to everyone.
I won’t take you along with me.

Alone. All alone. On my own.
So happy to be gone, gone, gone, gone
to new news and new faces,
new feuds and new places.

Underneath my yellow umbrella.
Won’t be holdin’ hands
with a mobster fella.
Mmm, I’m in the mood to be
swimmin’ in the nude,
sinnin’ too. Too bad you
won’t be there to see.

Grand. Feels so grand
lying in the sand.
Just working on this tan of mine.
Ohh, you know I think that life
is just the greatest thing.

Goodbye!!
It’s goodbye, darling.
Your turn to cry.
And you know good and well why, darling.
Why you got the gong.
I was into you to long.

Underneath my big bright umbrella
I’ll be breaking hearts with a
buff young fella.
Woo-oo-oo, whoo-oo-oo.
How was I to know?
Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.

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Bette Midler has released many songs over the years besides Yellow Beach Umbrella. Bette Midler released songs from 1972 to 2006 spanning across albums like The Divine Miss M, Bette Midler, Songs For The New Depression, Broken Blossom, Live At Last, Thighs And Whispers, The Rose, Divine Madness, No Frills, Mud Will Be Flung Tonight!, Beaches, Some People's Lives, For The Boys, Gypsy, Bette Of Roses, Bathhouse Betty, Bette, Bette Midler Sings The Rosemary Clooney Songbook, Bette Midler Sings The Peggy Lee Songbook, and Cool Yule. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bette Midler.

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About Lyrics and Yellow Beach Umbrella by Bette Midler

The lyrics for Yellow Beach Umbrella are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Bette Midler. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Yellow Beach Umbrella 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 Yellow Beach Umbrella - Bette Midler 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 Yellow Beach Umbrella by Bette Midler 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 Yellow Beach Umbrella" means the words set to the music of Yellow Beach Umbrella, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bette Midler. 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 Yellow Beach Umbrella and the lyrics to Yellow Beach Umbrella are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bette Midler who came here looking just for the lyrics to Yellow Beach Umbrella, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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