Cole, Nat King - Nature Boy Lyrics






There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far
Very far
Over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he

And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And 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"

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"





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  1. S.... P....

    Brilliant performance. Nobody could sing like Nat King Cole I couldn't help noticing the similarity to Piano Quintet In A Major, Op. 81 by Antonín Dvořák.

  2. L.... M....

    Nat King Cole was one TALENTED MAN! God Bless his SOUL and SPIRIT!

  3. P.... A....

    Nice 🎼🎶🎶♥

  4. r.... 7....

    This song, especially Nat King Cole, was always a "young," kid. But appreciating all, in between and up front. ♡♡

  5. G.... L....

    Canzone ricca di sentimento che ti fa sognare Interpretazione meravigliosa

  6. M.... R....

    Гамлет!!!! Камбербэтч!!!!! The BEST!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏💖💖😭😭😭

  7. M.... T....

    Y’all should listen to aurora sing this song

  8. A.... ....

    Aurora... ❤

  9. d.... r....

    Profound and so true these words. .

  10. C.... M....

    My childhood brought me here... 💓

  11. D.... ....

    Written in 1948 by a strange guy who called himself even ahbez ... maybe the first hippy on record. www.steynonline.com/8746/nature-boy

    D.... ....

    eden ahbez, sorry. Note the lack of capital letters.

  12. a.... ....

    This is what genius sounds like

  13. C.... ....

    I remember this as a child. The songs with the most simplistic lyrics are always the best.

  14. T.... ....

    Shoutout to a recent cover called Nature Girl by Cryoshell!

  15. N.... #....

    AURORA did a cover of this!!!

  16. H.... 2....

    https://www.steynonline.com/8746/nature-boy

  17. r.... g....

    Fucking beautiful.

  18. D.... D....

    Brilliant!

  19. z.... ....

    Wow!! Bless you Nat, and thank you Hugo. : )

  20. S.... L....

    Perfection and Medicine for the soul. <3

  21. S.... M....

    The greatest thing one ever learns is to love and be loved in return. So true.

  22. L.... '....

    It does n't get much better than this,thanks for sharing, love it

  23. R.... G....

    Nat Cole and two musicians. No auto tune and singing live. Sounds 1000 times better than the technically enhanced crap by today's so called singers. And by the way he sounded better than all of them. A true singer who did and attend singing schools, self taught. 🤗🤗

  24. L.... Z....

    This piece of music carries with it a philosophical message and a suggestion of what the human race needs.  Any attempt to jazz it up only serves to deter its significance.  (Listen to the lyrics and you will understand what I mean by this statement.)

  25. S.... S....

    Ouvi muito na minha adolescdnda muito boa emocionate linda musicaa bjs

  26. k.... 5....

    Time when talent was real... No click tracks yet the precision is uncanny

  27. b.... ....

    Does anybody know what show this is from?

  28. J.... C....

    Of course, the sage boy is Jesus.

    J.... C....

    Or douglas mac arthur who knows ???

  29. b.... D....

    Simply magical ! I’d sing this to my son when he was a baby and couldn’t sleep worked every time

  30. I.... C....

    This song reminds me of The Alchemist book ..

  31. L.... D....

    Nat King Cole was a very handsome and sexy man. Very classy.

  32. L.... D....

    💋❤️💋

  33. K.... W....

    I love this song. Nate King Cole has a voice that awesome.

  34. S.... ....

    This beautiful song was written by Eden Ahbez. He had long hair, a beard and wore flowing robes in the '40's. Eden lived in Griffith Park in Los Angeles. He's considered to be the first California hippie. Somehow, he got his manuscript of the song to Nat's manager and it became one of Nat's first hits. Eden died in 1995 at the age of 87 in L.A.

  35. m.... ....

    Dvořak's Piano Quintet op. 81 brought me here!

  36. J.... ....

    i miss u. Jay

  37. M.... G....

    Tbh only here because of Aaron Tveit and David Bowie. #moulinrouge

  38. u.... n....

    I thought Aurora wrote this, turnes out it was just a cover ._.

  39. K.... B....

    Rather the TV station had him put on ‘whitening ‘
    What great talent

  40. K.... B....

    Why did they have to put so much white powder on his Black wonderful face .Ignorance -straightened his hair too to appeal to a mainly white audience .Sad

  41. T.... D....

    This should be put in the next fallout (song #2)

  42. J.... M....

    I am 13 and Joe Comfort owes me twenny clams

  43. R.... B....

    there was only one Nat King Cole

  44. B.... V....

    Splendid voice, splendid performance! Thank you ever so much.

  45. C.... P....

    Novembre 2019 🎧

  46. B.... R....

    2019 anyone??

    B.... R....

    Yes it is

  47. S.... ....

    I was mesmerized at age 8 (1948) by this song, and it became the first song I could sing by heart. I have virtually worshiped Nat King Cole all of my life. I attended many of his appearances in the '50's, had all his albums, shook his hand, and was close enough to the stage at one concert (security was lax, largely unnecessary in those days) to feel flecks of saliva on my face from his ample mouth. (That mouth being a major factor in his extraordinary enunciation of lyrics.) I did not wash my face for days afterward, and years later (1965) was utterly grief-stricken at his untimely passing.

  48. A.... B....

    ”She was a working girl
    North of England way
    Now she's hit the big time
    In the U.S.A.
    And if she could only hear me
    This is what I'd say.”

  49. A.... A....

    Smooth as silk. What a voice.

  50. f.... ....

    So true.

  51. S.... C....

    Love this song so much. Thank you.

  52. B.... 3....

    This is fucken great 👍🏿

  53. Y.... Y....

    Can we replace these masterpiece with #100 trash billboard gucci gang or stupid hoe.?

  54. L.... B....

    Was for one of my Grandsons ( sorry)💔

  55. L.... B....

    He was very young here. This is from a movie "The Boy with Green Hair" one of my favorite songs by him I love .... as I do you 💘

  56. C.... L....

    Che meraviglia ♥️

  57. C.... L....

    Che meraviglia ♥️

  58. P.... W....

    I was a very little kid when this came out, five or so. It made me emotional to hear it. I thought it was the voice from heaven signing the words of God. I was right to be impressed: It's a masterful performance. The wonderful guitar, not the least reason. And it has a "beat," not static but moving forward. But, of course, his voice is bewitching...

  59. C.... ....

    And here i was, thinking AURORA wrote herself this beautiful song. Lol nope

  60. a.... b....

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    وأبــغــى أبــشــركــم😉 أنــي حــصــلــت عـلـى مــعــلــومــات كــثــيــر مـفـيـدة✅ هــتــنــفــعــكــم كـثـيـر ومــجــربــهــا كـمـان ونـفـعـتـنـي🤩🥳
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  61. S.... H....

    AWESOME <3

  62. D.... J....

    Monstro.... O cara é bom demais....

  63. m.... m....

    ‘...just to love and be loved in return’. This teaching and this learning, I am in constant returning to square one. How about you?

  64. A.... p....

    I absolutely prefer him over sinatra dunno why.

  65. A.... T....

    Rip Nat King Cole Nature Boy

  66. D.... H....

    If you're flying with Nat, you're riding with the best...EVER!

  67. T.... W....

    Traduçao


    Garoto da Natureza
    Havia um menino
    Havia um menino


    Um menino muito estranho e encantado
    Dizem que ele vagava muito longe, muito longe
    Por terra e mar
    Um pouco tímido e de olhar triste
    Mas muito sábio ele era
    E, então, em um dia
    Um dia mágico, ele passou pelo meu caminho
    E enquanto falávamos de muitas coisas
    Tolos e reis
    Isso ele me disse


    A única e maior coisa que você irá aprender
    É simplesmente amar e ser amado em troca

  68. c.... b....

    Nat King Cole é incomparável nesta interpretação, mas não podemos esquecer a interpretação de Michal Jackson, também maravilhosa .

  69. R.... L....

    I just love this version of this song
    .

  70. B.... 0....

    His singing style is very unique and interesting - notice how he keeps his mouth very clearly open for a lot of the lyrics and pronounces every word meticulously.

  71. r.... ....

    The song that created Buddy Rogers.

  72. m.... m....

    ‘The greatest thing you’ll ever Learn is Just to Love and Be Loved in Return’. I have always thought, the slap on the cheek brought about through Adam’s deaf ear is ‘Being In Love’, ever notice with a quickness our eyes search breathing to recapture the heart.

  73. U.... U....

    Wow! Such a powerful performance. I teared up listening to it!

  74. D.... F....

    Wow, who is that guitar man?

  75. A.... H....

    I had this song for my daddy’s funeral. The most beautiful song for a beautiful man 😇❤️🙏

  76. V.... S....

    Only the Great Nat King Cole can sing of the "Greatest thing you'll ever know"......

  77. G.... W....

    This was based on Chopin Prélude 4 (Op.28 No 4 ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3I_djOvvD8&gl=BE

  78. n.... ....

    Nat King Cole was in a class all by himself.

  79. A.... ....

    Thank You.

  80. �.... ....

    回版主:剛才本人還有一篇是關於Nat King Cole 的短文留言,不知為何不見了?就是比下面短文的早半小時而已。且留言後也回來看過,是在的。但現在沒有了!
    在此也想提一個意見,為何所有的留言,不能按照時序排列?
    而且網上一般來說,都會註明時間。
    這樣的情況,令人失望之外,也失去信心!不敢再度留言。
    且剛才的短文,是很用心來寫自己那麼心愛的歌手!

  81. �.... ....

    很開心,能看到他早期的現場錄影音樂片段!
    謝謝你們!

  82. �.... �....

    THE UNFORGETTABLE VELVET VOICE.....EVERGREEN!

  83. f.... 1....

    There was a boy
    A very strong and stylish boy
    They say he wrestled very far
    Very far, using dirty tricks
    Hardly shy or sad of eye
    So very Slick was Ric

  84. N.... Y....

    that suit is too big

  85. S.... D....

    Coming here from Cryoshell's rendition. It is interesting to hear different takes of the same song. Cryoshell's "Nature Girl" is more a haunting melody, though with a strong air of mystery behind it. I quite like Nat King Cole's original take, too!

  86. k.... ....

    Everybody keeps mentioning the guitarist in this beautiful song (and rightly so), but Nat King Cole’s piano playing is just as impressive...🎹 And his vocals: AWESOME ! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

  87. e.... ....

    The greatest thing you'll ever learn ITS JUST TO LOVE AND BE LOVED IN RETURN.
    So simple and beautiful that is true..

  88. R.... _....

    sajnos korán meghalt!!

  89. c.... m....

    Muito bom Nature Boy Nat King cole.😁

  90. R.... N....

    The Boy with Green Hair brought me here. Wonderful song by a truly great singer.

  91. s.... p....

    Love this song,great singer,great voice!

  92. P.... R....

    🎩🎩

  93. M.... ....

    OMG I used to play this 78 on my parents record played when I was a boy 60 years ago Pure Perfection!

  94. N.... B....

    Hamlet anyone?

  95. B.... ....

    Does someone knows who plays the guitar? He is smooth!

  96. J.... H....

    Vengo por el manhwa jazz for two
    Es beyisimo :'v