Lyrics to
Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child)

This version of Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child) was released by Heart in 1976.

Our Decade Lyrics Heart profile has all of the Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child) lyrics from 1976 and many more songs from the Heart discography that we have on file.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to Heart or about the 1970s in general.

Heading out this morning into the sun
Riding on the diamond waves, little darlin’ one

Warm wind caress her
Her lover it seems
Oh, Annie
Dreamboat Annie my little ship of dreams

---

Want more lyrics and songs by Heart?

Heart has released many songs over the years besides Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child). Heart released songs from 1976 to 2004 spanning across albums like Dreamboat Annie, Little Queen, Dog And Butterfly, Magazine, Bebe Le Strange, Private Audition, Passionworks, Heart, Bad Animals, Brigade, Desire Walks On, and Jupiter's Darling. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Heart.

If you're a fan of lyrics from 1970s songs looking for more songs from 1976 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child) by Heart

The lyrics for Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child) are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Heart. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child) 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 Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child) - Heart 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 Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child) by Heart 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 Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child)" means the words set to the music of Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Heart. 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 Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child) and the lyrics to Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Heart who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

More Songs & Lyrics by Heart

Visit our Heart profile for more Heart songs, lyrics & info!

)