Words (Bee Gees song)

"Words"
Single by the Bee Gees
B-side	"Sinking Ships"
Released	January 1968
Recorded	3 October 1967
Genre	Pop
Length	3:13
Label	Polydor (United Kingdom) Atco (United States)
Songwriter(s)	Barry Gibb Robin Gibb Maurice Gibb
Producer(s)	Robert Stigwood Bee Gees
The Bee Gees UK singles chronology
"World" (1967) "Words" (1968) "Jumbo" (1968)
The Bee Gees US singles chronology
"Massachusetts" (1967) "Words" (1968) "Jumbo" (1968)
Audio sample
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"Words" is a song by the Bee Gees, written by Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The song reached No. 1 in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.

"Words" was the Bee Gees third UK top 10 hit, reaching number 8, and in a UK television special on ITV in December 2011 it was voted fourth in "The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song".^[1] The song has been recorded by many other artists, including hit versions by Rita Coolidge in 1978 and Boyzone in 1996. It was Boyzone's fifth single and their first number-one hit in the UK.