Lyrics to
Country Girl

Released by Olivia Newton-John in 1974
From the Album: Long Live Love |

This version of Country Girl was released by Olivia Newton-John in 1974.

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I was born in the country, I was raised with the sun
The flowers were my pillow when the day’s work was done
Down in the valley shone the bright neon signs
The call of the city life kept going through my mind
Oh yeah, the days of my childhood would soon be left behind

It was a Saturday morning when the snow lay on the ground
Pa said the time had come when I could move to town
So I kissed goodbye to Mama, held on tight to Papa’s hand
I saw a tear in Mama’s eye but I did not understand
‘Cause I was just a country girl being brought up on the land

Goodbye Mama, let me see you smile
Wipe away that teardrop from your eye
I won’t forget that I’m a country girl
I got to go, but I hate to say goodbye
So long, Papa, I’ll be seeing you
But I’ll be coming home again someday
No, I won’t forget that I’m a country girl
A country girl, you know I’ll always stay

I was born in the country, I was raised with the sun
The flowers were my pillow when the day’s work was done
Down in the valley shone the bright neon signs
Yet I know where I belong, I got my peace of mind
Oh yeah, I was born a country girl and that just suits me fine

Goodbye Mama, let me see you smile
Wipe away that teardrop from your eye
I won’t forget that I’m a country girl
I got to go, but I hate to say goodbye
So long, Papa, I’ll be seeing you
But I’ll be coming home again someday
No, I won’t forget that I’m a country girl
I’ll come back to you, believe me
I won’t forget that I’m a country girl
A country girl, you know I’ll always stay


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Olivia Newton-John has released many songs over the years besides Country Girl. Olivia Newton-John released songs from 1970 to 2007 spanning across albums like Toomorrow, If Not For You, Olivia, Let Me Be There, Long Live Love, Have You Never Been Mellow, Clearly Love, Don't Stop Believin', Come On Over, Making A Good Thing Better, Totally Hot, Grease, Xanadu, Physical, Two Of A Kind, Soul Kiss, The Rumour, Warm And Tender, Gaia: One Woman's Journey, Back With A Heart, Sordid Lives, -2, Indigo: Women Of Song, Stronger Than Before, and Christmas Wish. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Olivia Newton-John.

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About Lyrics and Country Girl by Olivia Newton-John

The lyrics for Country Girl are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Olivia Newton-John. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Country Girl have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Country Girl - Olivia Newton-John and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Country Girl by Olivia Newton-John in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Country Girl" means the words set to the music of Country Girl, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Olivia Newton-John. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Country Girl and the lyrics to Country Girl are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Olivia Newton-John who came here looking just for the lyrics to Country Girl, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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