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Nature Boy Lyrics

Artist: David Bowie
Album: Moulin Rouge Soundtrack

This story is about love,
The woman I loved is dead...

There was a boy,
A very strange enchanted boy.

They say he wandered very far,
very far over land and sea.

A little child and sailed about,
but very wise, was he.

And then one day, one magic day he passed my way,
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.

Comments/Interpretations

by MRS. Peter N. Smith on 5/22/2008 11:35am
I had purchased "Nature Boy" on iTunes; however, I read the words for the first time today on your site. What a powerful, impassioned song! The ending words left me with thoughts of who I truly care for and love, and the appreciation I have for my charming husband. Thank you!

by BaLeRinKaTa on 5/26/2008 10:00am
MNOGO tyjno i v syshtoto vreme krasivo

by Casey on 4/25/2010 11:38pm
I absolutely love this song!!!

by Ady on 8/22/2010 1:14pm
So nice and romatic

by Ali on 3/14/2011 7:15pm
I am a musician and poet, and one of my friends gave me the Moulin Rouge soundtrack as a gift, and I could not get over this first track! The lyrics are...paradoxically beyond words.

by Spencer on 5/5/2011 10:17am
‎*A little shy, and sad of eye*. But very wise, was he...

by jake theramin.hotmail.com on 9/28/2011 9:14pm
what the hell ! I ask for "Nature Boy" LYRICS -All I get is thousands of bullshit words but no frikken lyrics ! Get the hell off the internet with this shit

wikapedia can go to hell !they suck ! !

by damillncg on 5/10/2012 2:14pm
the lyric is wrong...it should read (after "land and sea")..."a little shy, and sad of eye, but very wise was he."

by Laura on 8/10/2013 5:39pm
The original song was written by Nat King Cole. It looks like Bowie changed them slightly. Not sure If I like the rewrite but the original is amazing.

by john on 1/23/2014 9:09pm
Laura - Nature Boy was written as a catalogue piece by eden ahbez in 1947 a year before Nat King Cole recorded it.
It was not written for or by Nat King Cole, he just happened to be the first to popularise it.