Lyrics to
My Girl

This version of My Girl was released by Michael Jackson in 1972.

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I’ve got sunshine
On a cloudy day
When it’s cold outside
I’ve got the month of May
I guess you’d say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl
(My girl, my girl)
Talkin’ ’bout my girl
(My girl)

I’ve got so much honey
the bees envy me
I’ve got a sweeter song than
the birds in the trees
I guess you’ll say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl
(My girl, my girl)
Talkin’ ’bout my girl
(My girl)

Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey
Ooooh…

I don’t need no money,
fortune or fame
I’ve got all the riches baby
one man can claim
Well I guess you’ll say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl
(My girl, my girl)
Talkin’ ’bout my girl
(My girl)

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About Lyrics and My Girl by Michael Jackson

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

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

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