Lyrics to
Ocean Girl

This version of Ocean Girl was released by Neil Young in 1976.

Our About Neil Young page at Decade Lyrics includes the lyrics for Ocean Girl from 1976 as well as all of the other lyrics from Neil Young that we have in our lyrics database.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to Neil Young or about the 1970s in general.

In the jungle land
With the sea and the sand
Can I meet you there?

We’ll be drinkin’ bananas
From long tall glasses
In the open air.

Ocean girl
Come ’round the world
From forgotten shores.

There’ll be music playin’
What no words could say
When you first get there.

We’ll be lost in a corner
That we find in each other
There’ so much to share.

Ocean girl
Come ’round the world
From forgotten shores.

---

Want more lyrics and songs by Neil Young?

Neil Young has released many songs over the years besides Ocean Girl. Neil Young released songs from 1969 to 2007 spanning across albums like Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Neil Young, After The Goldrush, Harvest, Journey Through The Past, Time Fades Away, On The Beach, Tonight's The Night, Zuma, Long May You Run, American Stars & Bars, Comes A Time, Rust Never Sleeps, Hawks And Doves, Re-ac-tor, Trans, Everybody's Rockin', Old Ways, Landing On Water, Life, This Note's For You, Eldorado, Freedom, Ragged Glory, Harvest Moon, Lucky Thirteen, Sleeps With Angels, Mirror Ball, Broken Arrow, Silver & Gold, Prairie Wind, and Chrome Dreams II. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Neil Young.

If you're a fan of 1970s songs looking for more songs from 1976 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and Ocean Girl by Neil Young

When you decide to study the lyrics to Ocean Girl, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Neil Young. Some of the lyrics to Ocean Girl have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Neil Young and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

More Songs & Lyrics by Neil Young

Visit our Neil Young profile for more Neil Young songs, lyrics & info!

)