Lyrics to
Turn Around

This version of Turn Around was released by Diana Ross in 1973.

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Where are you going my little one, little one
Petals and petticoats, where did they go
Turn around and you’re two
Turn around and you’re four
Turn around and you’re a young girl
Going out of the dorm

Turn around, turn around
Turn around and you’re a young girl
Going out of the door

Where are you going my little one, little one
Where are you going my baby my own

Turn around and you’re a young wife
With babes of your own

Turn around, turn around
Turn around and you’re a young wife
With babes of your own

Turn around, turn around
Turn around and you’re a young wife
Turn around and you’re a young wife
With babes of your own

Where are you going my little one, little one
Blooms of red roses, where did they go?
Turn around and you’re young
Turn around and you’re old
That’s a sure way to travel
And so I had been told

Turn around, turn around
Turn around and you’re a young wife
Turn around and you’re a young wife
With babes of your own

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About Lyrics and Turn Around by Diana Ross

When you decide to study the lyrics to Turn Around, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Diana Ross. Some of the lyrics to Turn Around have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Diana Ross and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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