Lyrics to
Girls

This version of Girls was released by Iggy Pop in 1979.

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I love girls
There all over this world
Hah!
Like to look at ya

Well I’m gonna tell you about girls.
They’re all over this world
Some have beautiful shapes
I wanna live to be ninety-eight

Yeah, somebody to talk to
And I like to look at you
Yeah, somebody to talk to
And I love to look at you

‘Cause you’re a real fine girl

Last week in Paree
I was hanging down with Suzee
That crazy French magazine
She turned me backwards to a new scene

‘Cause she was somebody to talk to
And to tell my troubles to
She was somebody that’s so fine
Worth my looking in to

She’s a beautiful girl, girl, girl

Summertime
Oh, and the living is easy
The girls are jumping
And the cotton is high
Your daddy is rich
And your mama’s good looking
So hush little baby
And don’t you cry

‘Cause you’re a real fine girl

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About Lyrics and Girls by Iggy Pop

The lyrics for Girls are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Iggy Pop. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Girls 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 Girls - Iggy Pop 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 Girls by Iggy Pop 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 Girls" means the words set to the music of Girls, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Iggy Pop. 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 Girls and the lyrics to Girls are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Iggy Pop who came here looking just for the lyrics to Girls, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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