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I Found That Girl

This version of I Found That Girl was released by Jackson 5 in 1970.

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Mama, oh Mama
I found that girl
Mama, oh Mama
I found that girl

Mama, life for me now
Is a new sensation
Just like you said it would be
With the right situation
Now love has a meaning
And I have a goal
This feeling inside me now
Makes yesterday a hundred years old
Now I understand
What it is to be a man
The way you explained it to me that day
You said only the right girl
Can make me feel this way

Mama, I think I found that girl
Yeah, Mama, I think I found that girl

Mama, she’s that beautiful dream
That I dream each night
She’s that bird of love
On whose wings I’m in flight
She’s those words left
When there’s no more to say
She’s my sunshine
At the end of a perfect day

All this lets me find a reason to be alive
That day when you set me upon your knee
You said only the right girl
Could be all these things

Mama, I think I found that girl
Yeah, Mama I think I found that girl

You said, “Son, go on and search around
There’s a good girl whose out there to be found”
And Mama I think I found that girl
Yeah, Mama I think I found that girl

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About Lyrics and I Found That Girl by Jackson 5

The lyrics for I Found That Girl are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by Jackson 5. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to I Found That 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 I Found That Girl - Jackson 5 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 I Found That Girl by Jackson 5 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 I Found That Girl" means the words set to the music of I Found That Girl, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson 5. 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 I Found That Girl and the lyrics to I Found That Girl are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson 5 who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Found That Girl, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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