The same melody was used for Eres toda una mujer (Woman of the world is the original).
Albert Hammond (writer, recording artist): Woman of the world was written for a famous movie star in the Thirties and Fourties and Fifties also. Her name was Terry Moore, and she was in a movie called "Mighty Joe Young" about a gorilla, and then there was another one called "Beneath the 12-mile reef" starring Robert Wagner and herself. I just happened to meet her when I was on tour with the Moody Blues... she came backstage, said I was the greatest she'd ever seen and this and that and hugged me and took me to dinner. I wrote two songs for her: Woman of the world and For the peace of all mankind. (Albert on the telephone with Reto, Copyright ?2002 by Reto)
You're a woman of the world
You seem to know more than you say
Every time I look into your eyes
You give the game away
You're a woman of the world
You've seen the sun and seen the rain
Hit the pinnacles of joy and felt
The lowest ebb of pain
Don't you know, don't you know, don't you know
That I understand, yes, I understand, you know I do
And, girl, you haven't got to wait while I catch up with you
God only knows it's true
You're a woman of the world
Both very strong and very frail
A giant redwood or a tumbleweed
In a winter's gail
Don't you know, don't you know, don't you know
That I understand, yes, I understand, you know I do
And, girl, you haven't got to wait while I catch up with you
God only knows it's true
You're a woman of the world
So let's be honest from the start
I can't leave you to the world because
I want you in my heart
