Wuthering Kate Bush lyrics

[Marijn]

Has anyone got the lyrics to Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights with the CD or LP?
I googled for the lyrics but I'm not sure if the first line given is correct, so I think that the lyrics supplied with the record would be more likely to be correct. Thanks.

[jack daniels]

if this is the same as what you've got then it's correct

http://www.risa.co.uk/sla/song.php?songid=1426 4

[gonzo00]

lyrics are right here!
http://www.metrolyrics.com/wuthering-heights-l yrics-kate-bush.html

[jno]

"out on the wiley windy moors we'd roll and fall in green"... not sure what wiley means, but that's always sounded to me like what she's singing. I presume the words given on websites would be taken from the original album, since she wrote them herself.

http://lyrics.dainutekstai.lt/76583/kate-bush- wuthering-heights.htm.

[jackthehat]

"Out on the winding windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green"

[craft1948]

I bought this record when it first came out and for years thought it was 'Out on the wild and windy moors'.......thanks!

[chinadog]

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Wutheri ng-heights-lyrics-Kate-Bush/67A6699B7CAE2C4D48 2569A0002E01D8

This is what I thought.

[Therema]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTs-Wa9lB0Q
Here's the video the lyrics are very clear

[Marijn]

China dog and Jack the hat, I also think it's "winding", but the majority of the lyrics on google say it's "wiley". (But then they all just copy each other anyway, so once a mistake is made, it goes on and on).
That's why I want to know what the lyrics say that actually came with the CD/LP.
Has anyone got them?
Thanks everyone for your answers ;-)

[Squitty]

Sadly I have a kate bush LP with wuthering heights on but no lyrics. These LP things dont 'alf seem big.

[Marijn]

Thanks Therema, it does sound like she's saying "wiley".

[Marijn]

Thanks for having a look Squitty.

[jno]

these guys agree with you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSed1K-QNMc&fea ture=related

Actually I've just listened to it on an Ipod for the first time (I used to play it just on an old deck) and it's less clear than I thought. And you're right about mishearings being cut and pasted from one website to another. So I'm not so sure now. Good question!

[SeaJayPea]

My copy of the album (there's a sticker on the cover that says I bought it at Virgin on 11-03-1978) has the lyrics on the back.

Out on the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy

And I can't be the only person in the world that actually believes that the 12-inch album was exactly the right size. The artwork has a chance, unlike on CD's. And they sound better.

[Marijn]

Thank you Seajay and Jno. If "wiley" is on the lryrics on the actual album, then I suppose I'll have to believe it.
I wanted it to be "winding", because "wiley" sounds silly; like a cartoon coyote.

[SeaJayPea]

True. And wiley's in no dictionary that I have, either. But the song still comes to my desert island.

[Ethel]

Wile is in my Collins English Dictionary

Trickery, cunning or craftiness
An artful or seductive trick or ploy
To lure, beguile or entice

No wiley, but there is wily

From wiles - sly or crafty

[jackthehat]

D'you know, I have always actually thought that it sounded like 'wily'..........but chosen to believe that it must've really been 'winding'.

I know that 'wily' exists in terms of being crafty/sly.............but don't really believe that it is an adjective that is easily applied to the Yorkshire moors..........

[jackthehat]

............Yorkshire folks, however, is a different matter....:o)

[cluelessJoe]

seems that Kate wrote down a word she thought existed but didn't really ... a bit like Georgie Fame in the ballad of Bonnie & Clyde who wrote & sang 'dewlap bag' when he really meant to use 'burlap bag'

[Marijn]

Thank you everybody for all your answers. The best line would've been the wild and windy moors (as Craft said, and as I originally thought too).