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The Boy With The Moon And Star On His Head

This version of The Boy With The Moon And Star On His Head was released by Cat Stevens in 1972.

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A gardener’s daughter stopped me on my way, on the day I was to wed
It is you who I wish to share my body with she said
We’ll find a dry place under the sky with a flower for a bed
And for my joy I will give you a boy with a moon and star on his head.
Her silver hair flowed in the air laying waves across the sun
Her hands were like the white sands, and her eyes had diamonds on.
We left the road and headed up to the top of the Whisper Wood
And we walked ’till we came to where the holy magnolia stood.
And there we laid cool in the shade singing songs and making love…
With the naked earth beneath us and the universe above.
The time was late my wedding wouldn’t wait I was sad but I had to go,
So while she was asleep I kissed her cheek for cheerio.
The wedding took place and people came from many miles around
There was plenty merriment, cider and wine abound
But out of all that I recall I remembered the girl I met
‘Cause she had given me something that my hear could not forget.
A year had passed and everything was just as it was a year before…
As if was a year before…
Until the gift that someone left, a basket by my door.
And in there lay the fairest little baby crying to be fed,
I got down on my knees and kissed the moon and star on his head.
As years went by the boy grew high and the village looked on in awe
They’d never seen anything like the boy with the moon and star before.
And people would ride from far and wide just to seek the word he spread
I’ll tell you everything I’ve learned, and Love is all…he said.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to The Boy With The Moon And Star On His Head, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Cat Stevens. Some of the lyrics to The Boy With The Moon And Star On His Head 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 The Boy With The Moon And Star On His Head 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 The Boy With The Moon And Star On His Head" means the words set to the music of The Boy With The Moon And Star On His Head, 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 The Boy With The Moon And Star On His Head and the lyrics to The Boy With The Moon And Star On His Head 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 The Boy With The Moon And Star On His Head, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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