Lyrics to
Wrap Around Joy

This version of Wrap Around Joy was released by Carole King in 1974.

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My mama loves me, she’s my best friend
I know my daddy’s with me right to the end
Oh, but my baby’s got the final say
And what he says, it turns me every way
But loose, he say now

Oo-ee, baby, wrap around joy
What it takes to save me, that wrap around joy
I believe in salvation, I don’t doubt what I’ve found
I just can’t do without it, oh, that good old wrap around

My baby calls me late Friday night
He sounds so crazy but he feels so right
He says, Get ready, mama, now lighten your load
And I’ll be right over for the next episode
Here we go now

Oo-ee, baby, wrap around joy
That’s what he gave me, that wrap around boy
He’s been my undoin’, I’ve been comin’ unwound
But I don’t mind unwindin’ for some good old wrap around

Oo-ee, baby, wrap around joy
That’s what he gave me, that wrap around boy

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides Wrap Around Joy. Carole King released songs from 1968 to 2005 spanning across albums like Now That Everything's Been Said, Writer, Tapestry, Music, Rhymes & Reasons, Fantasy, Wrap Around Joy, Really Rosie, Thoroughbred, Simple Things, Welcome Home, Touch The Sky, Pearls: Songs Of Goffin And King, One To One, Speeding Time, City Streets, Colour Of Your Dreams, Love Makes The World, and The Living Room Tour. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carole King.

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About Lyrics and Wrap Around Joy by Carole King

The lyrics to Wrap Around Joy are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Carole King used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Wrap Around Joy have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Carole King 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 Wrap Around Joy by Carole King. 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 Wrap Around Joy" means the words set to the music of Wrap Around Joy, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carole King. 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 Wrap Around Joy and the lyrics to Wrap Around Joy are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carole King who came here looking just for the lyrics to Wrap Around Joy, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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