Mother Nature’s Son Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Born a poor young country boy
Mother Nature's son
All day long, I'm sitting, singing songs
For everyone
[Verse 2]
Sit beside a mountain stream
See her waters rise
Listen to the pretty sound of music
As she flies
[Chorus]
Do-do-do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do, do-do
[Verse 3]
Find me in my field of grass
Mother Nature's son
Swaying daisies, sing a lazy song
Beneath the sun
Do-do-do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do-do
Mmm, do-do-do-do-do
Yeah-yeah-yeah
[Instrumental Break]
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm, lullaby
[Outro]
Ooh-ah, Mother Nature's son
About
A typically upbeat acoustic ditty by McCartney, composed after he was inspired by a lecture given by the Maharishi in India.
Q&A
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He was born in 1942 and the song was recorded and released in 1968. He was 26.
There’s a song I always used to love when I was growing up. It was called “Nature Boy,” and it was about a nature lover. When I wanted to write a song along the same kind of lines, I chose the title, “Mother Nature’s Son.” And, I wrote this — I think — up in Liverpool, when I was visiting my dad one time, and it was just about my love of nature, my love of the countryside. And one of the things that Linda and I found we had in common […] was our love of nature.
—Paul McCartney, Oobu Joobu Part 6 (1995)
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