Lyrics to
Nature Boy

This version of Nature Boy was released by George Benson in 1976.

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There was a boy

Very strange
Enchanted boy;
They say be wander’d very far

Very far over land and sea.
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise
Very wise was be.

And then one day

A magic day he passed my way

And while we spoke of many things

Fools and kings
This he said to me:
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return
To be loved in return.

And then one day…

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George Benson has released many songs over the years besides Nature Boy. George Benson released songs from 1965 to 2007 spanning across albums like It's Uptown, The Silver Collection, The Other Side Of Abbey Road, White Rabbit, Good King Bad, In Flight, Livin' Inside Your Love, Give Me The Night, Twice The Love, Big Boss Band, Love Remembers, That's Right, Standing Together, Absolute Benson, After Hours, Irreplaceable, and Live From Montreux. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by George Benson.

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About Lyrics and Nature Boy by George Benson

The lyrics to Nature Boy are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that George Benson used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Nature Boy have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only George Benson and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Nature Boy by George Benson. 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 Nature Boy" means the words set to the music of Nature Boy, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by George Benson. 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 Nature Boy and the lyrics to Nature Boy are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of George Benson who came here looking just for the lyrics to Nature Boy, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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