"Aubrey" is a song written and composed by David Gates, and originally recorded by the pop-rock group Bread, of which Gates was the leader and primary music producer. It appeared on Bread's 1972 album Guitar Man. The single lasted 11 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 15. David Gates wrote Aubrey after watching Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Audrey Hepburn. This song swapped the assumed gender of the name "Aubrey," nearly extinguishing its use as a male name and popularizing "Aubrey" as a female name up to the present.

 

And Aubrey was her name,

And not so very ordinary girl or name.

But who's to blame?

For a love that wouldn't bloom

For the hearts that never played in tune.

Like a lovely melody that everyone can sing,

Take away the words that rhyme it doesn't mean a thing.

 

And Aubrey was her name.

We tripped the light and danced together to the moon,

But where was June.

No it never came around.

If it did it never made a sound,

Maybe I was absent or was listening to fast,

Catching all the words, but then the meaning going past,

 

But God I miss the girl,

And I'd go a thousand times around the world just to be

Closer to her than to me.

 

And Aubrey was her name,

I never knew her, but I loved her just the same,

I loved her name.

Wish that I had found the way

And the reasons that would make her stay.

I have learned to lead a life apart from all the rest.

If I can't have the one I want, I'll do without the best.

 

But how I miss the girl A

nd I'd go a million times around the world just to say

She had been mine for a day.