Lyrics to
Little Girl Blue

This version of Little Girl Blue was released by Diana Ross in 1973.

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When I was very young
The world was younger than I
As merry as a carousel

The circustent was strong
With every star in the sky
Above the ring I loved so well

Now the young world has grown old
Gone are the tinsle and gold

Sit there and count your fingers
What can you do?
Oh girl you’re through
All you can count on are your fingers
Unlucky little girl blue

Sit there and count the raindrops
Falling on you
It’s time you knew
All you can count on are the raindrops
That fall on little girl blue

No use oh girl
You may as well surrender
Your hope is getting slender
Why won’t somebody send a tender blue boy
To cheer little girl blue

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About Lyrics and Little Girl Blue by Diana Ross

When you decide to study the lyrics to Little Girl Blue, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Diana Ross. Some of the lyrics to Little Girl Blue have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Diana Ross and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Little Girl Blue 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 Girl Blue" means the words set to the music of Little Girl Blue, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Diana Ross. 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 Girl Blue and the lyrics to Little Girl Blue are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Diana Ross who came here looking just for the lyrics to Little Girl Blue, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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