Lyrics to
Mona Bone Jakon

This version of Mona Bone Jakon was released by Cat Stevens in 1970.

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Yes, I’ve got a Mona Bone Jakon
But it won’t be lonely for long.
Yes, I’ve got a Mona Bone Jakon
But it won’t be lonely for long.

Yes, I’ve got my reasons and to me they’re all true,
and I wouldn’t change them, not even for you.

Yes, I’ve got a Mona Bone Jakon
But it won’t be lonely for long.

Yeah!…

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Mona Bone Jakon, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Cat Stevens. Some of the lyrics to Mona Bone Jakon have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Cat Stevens and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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