Lyrics to
Little Bitty Pretty One

This version of Little Bitty Pretty One was released by Jackson 5 in 1972.

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Little bitty pretty one
Come on and talk to me
Lovey dovey lovely one
Come sit down on my knee

I can tell you a story
That happened a long time ago
Little pitty pretty one
I’ve been watching you grow

Little bitty pretty one
Come on and talk to me
Lovey dovey lovely one
Come sit down on my knee

Come on everybody
Let’s put our hands together and sing along
Come on, come on
I’m saying
Come on

I can tell you a story
That happened a long time ago
Little bitty pretty one
I’ve been watching you grow

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About Lyrics and Little Bitty Pretty One by Jackson 5

When you decide to study the lyrics to Little Bitty Pretty One, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Jackson 5. Some of the lyrics to Little Bitty Pretty One have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Jackson 5 and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Little Bitty Pretty One if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Little Bitty Pretty One" means the words set to the music of Little Bitty Pretty One, 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 Little Bitty Pretty One and the lyrics to Little Bitty Pretty One 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 Little Bitty Pretty One, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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