Girls Wanna Have Fun – English Lyrics

• By: Josh Fawaz
• Album: Girls Wanna Have Fun

Lyrics & Translation

Explore the colloquial language of nightlife and social interaction through Josh Fawaz's 'Girls Wanna Have Fun.' This song is an excellent resource for learners to understand modern English slang, rhythmic phrasing, and the vocabulary of urban club culture.

[English]

I come home in the morning light

My mother says, "When you gonna live your life right?"

Oh, mother dear, we're not the fortunate ones

And girls, they want to have fun

Oh, girls just want to have fun

(Girls just want to have fun)

The phone rings in the middle of the night

My father yells, "What you gonna do with your life?"

Oh, daddy dear, you know you're still number one

But girls, they want to have fun

Oh, girls just want to have

That's all they really want

Some fun

When the working day is done

Oh, girls, they want to have fun

Oh, girls just want to have fun

(They want, wanna have fun)

(Girls, they want, wanna have)

(Girls, they want, wanna have)

(Girls, they want-want, wanna have)

Some boys take a beautiful girl

And hide her away from the rest of the world

I want to be the one to walk in the sun

Oh, girls, they want to have fun

Oh, girls just want to have

That's all they really want

Yeah, some fun

When the working day is done

Oh, girls, they want to have fun

Oh, girls just want to have fun

(Girls, they want)

(Want to have fun)

(Girls, they want-want, wanna have)

(Girls, they want)

(Want to have fun)

(Girls, they-)

Oh, girls, girls just want to have fun

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
morning /ˈmɔːrnɪŋ/ A1	noun - the period of time between midnight and noon
mother /ˈmʌðər/ A1	noun - a female parent
fortunate /ˈfɔːrtʃənət/ B2	adjective - favored by or involving good luck or fortune
fun /fʌn/ A1	noun - enjoyment, amusement, or lighthearted pleasure
father /ˈfɑːðər/ A1	noun - a male parent
yells /jɛlz/ B1	verb - to shout in a loud, sharp way
working /ˈwɜːrkɪŋ/ A1	adjective - engaged in paid work
beautiful /ˈbjuːtɪfl/ A1	adjective - pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically
hide /haɪd/ A2	verb - to put or keep out of sight
world /wɜːrld/ A1	noun - the earth, together with all of its countries and people

Key Grammar Structures

• When you gonna live your life right?

  ➔ Future intention using 'gonna' (going to)

  ➔ 'Gonna' is a colloquial contraction of 'going to', used here to ask about future plans.

• We're not the fortunate ones

  ➔ Noun phrase with 'the' + adjective as a noun

  ➔ 'The fortunate' acts as a noun phrase referring to a specific group of people.

• You know you're still number one

  ➔ Stative verb 'know' and present simple for current state

  ➔ 'Know' is a stative verb which expresses a state rather than an action, used here in the present simple.

• When the working day is done

  ➔ Passive voice in a temporal clause

  ➔ 'Is done' is the passive voice, indicating the completion of the action by an outside agent.

• Some boys take a beautiful girl

  ➔ Quantifier 'some' with countable nouns

  ➔ 'Some' is used here to refer to an indefinite number or a subset of boys.

• And hide her away from the rest of the world

  ➔ Phrasal verb 'hide away'

  ➔ 'Hide away' is a phrasal verb meaning to seclude or keep someone out of sight.

• I want to be the one to walk in the sun

  ➔ Infinitive as a complement

  ➔ 'To walk' is an infinitive phrase acting as a complement to 'the one'.

• That's all they really want

  ➔ Relative clause with omitted 'that'

  ➔ The full sentence would be 'That is all [that] they really want', where 'that' is the object.