Pretty Woman Lyrics

Pretty Woman Lyrics

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Pretty woman, walking down the street
Pretty woman, the kind I like to meet
Pretty woman
I don't believe you, you're not the truth
No one could look as good as you

Mercy

Pretty woman, won't you pardon me?
Pretty woman, I couldn't help but see
Pretty woman
That you look lovely as can be
Are you lonely just like me?

Wow

Pretty woman, stop a while
Pretty woman, talk a while
Pretty woman, give your smile to me
Pretty woman, yeah, yeah, yeah
Pretty woman, look my way
Pretty woman, say you'll stay with me

'Cause I need you, I'll treat you right
Come with me baby, be mine tonight

Pretty woman, don't walk on by
Pretty woman, don't make me cry
Pretty woman, don't walk away, hey...
OK

If that's the way it must be, OK
I guess I'll go on home, it's late
There'll be tomorrow night, but wait
What do I see?

Is she walking back to me?
Yeah, she's walking back to me
Oh, oh, pretty woman

Thanks to Megan, Tom for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Roy K Orbison, Joe Melson, Ray B Rush, Hans Ulrich Weigel

Bill Dees, this song's co-writer, recalled how quick Roy Orbison wrote it while his wife, who inspired the song, was out of the house, "He sang it while I was banging my hand down on the table and by the time she returned we had the song. I love the song. From the moment that the rhythm started, I could hear the heels clicking on the pavement, click, click, the pretty woman walking down the street, in a yellow skirt and red shoes. We wrote Oh Pretty Woman on a Friday, the next Friday we recorded it, and the next Friday it was out."

The ending lines, "But wait! What do I see? Is she walking back to me?" were added by Fred Foster, a friend of Roy Orbison, who produced this song.

This track was prominently featured in the 1990 film "Pretty Woman" with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.

On May 14, 2008, The Library of Congress selected "Pretty Woman" for preservation in the National Recording Registry.

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Wow!

Pretty woman, walking down the street
Pretty woman, the kind I'd like to meet
Pretty woman, I don't believe you it must be true
No one could look as good as you

Mercy!

Pretty woman wont you pardon me
Pretty woman I couldn't help but see
Pretty woman, Oh you look lovely as you could be
Are you lonely just like me

Adrrrrr...

Pretty woman stop a while
Pretty woman talk a while
Pretty woman give your smile to me
Pretty woman yeah yeah yeah
Pretty woman look my way
Pretty woman say you'll stay with me
Cause I need you, need you tonight

Uh!

Pretty woman don't walk on by
Pretty woman don't make me cry
Pretty woman don't walk away, yeah, okay
If that's the way it must be, okay
I guess Ill go home, its late, maybe tomorrow night...
But wait.. what do I see..
She's walking back to me

Wow!
Wow!
Pretty woman

Thanks to CodyPanda00 for correcting these lyrics.

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What have the artists said about the song?
Fred Foster Sound Studios (Nashville, Tennessee)
Oh, Pretty Woman Is A Live Version Of
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Roy Orbison’s 1964 mega hit, reaching no. 1 both in the US and the UK. He was the only American artist to reach no. 1 in the UK in a 69 weeks period at that time! Ranked #222 of the top 500 songs ever. Won multiple awards including a posthumous Grammy in 1991.
Apparently written about Orbison’s wife, Claudette , while she was preparing to go out. Still, at a certain point the song became downright impossible to separate from Julia Roberts.
The song had multiple parody and “serious” covers – see some in the annotations.
Get started writing by playing anything that comes to mind….My wife came in and wanted to go to town to get something.
Orbison asked if she needed money. Dees then cracked –
Pretty woman never needs any money.

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"Oh, Pretty Woman" or "Pretty Woman" is a song recorded by Roy Orbison, written by Orbison and Bill Dees. It was released as a single in August 1964 on Monument Records and spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 from September 26, 1964, the second single by Orbison to top the US charts. It was also Orbison's third single to top the UK Singles Chart (for a total of three weeks). The record ultimately sold seven million copies and marked the high point in Orbison's career. Within months of its release, in October 1964, the single was certified gold by the RIAA. At the year's end, Billboard ranked it the number four song of 1964. "Oh, Pretty Woman" was eventually the basis for the 1990 film Pretty Woman starring Julia Roberts and the 2018 Broadway musical Pretty Woman: The Musical. more »
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988), also known by the nickname 'The Big O', was an American singer-songwriter, best known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country and western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis. His greatest success came with Monument Records between 1960 and 1964, when 22 of his songs placed on the Billboard Top Forty, including "Only the Lonely", "Crying", and "Oh, Pretty Woman". His career stagnated through the 1970s, but several covers of his songs and the use of "In Dreams" in David Lynch's Blue Velvet revived his career in the 1980s. In 1988, he joined the supergroup Traveling… more »
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