BEDTIME FOR TOYS
By
Stevie Wonder
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Close your eyes, beddy bye tin soldier,
Mommy says that it’s time for sleep,
If my folks were wiser and older,
They’d know kids and toys don’t need sleep.
Don’t be bad little cotton dolly,
See how nice Mickey Mouse sleeps now?
Even my brass drummer boy has stopped all his noise,
Cause he knows it’s past bedtime for toys.
Ya know, every Christmas Santa Claus goes all over the world with his reindeer,
sled, and a big bag of toys and he’ll come to your house this year too.
But sometimes, just sometimes, he doesn’t have enough time to see every little boy and girl because the world is so big.
So maybe we should sing a song for all the children that Santa didn’t visit.
Bless the child who has no tin soldier,
No brass drummer boy to put to bed.
He will still grow wiser and older,
Loving one small rag doll instead.
He won’t have a cotton dolly,
Mickey Mouse won’t come to his house.
Hold that rag doll to your heart, nothing can destroy
The beauty one shall find in one small toy.
BOOGIE ON REGGAE WOMAN
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I like to see you boogie
Right across the floor
I like to do it to you
Till you holla for more
I like to reggae
But you dance too fast for me
I’d like to make love to you
So you can make me scream
Boogie on reggae woman
What is wrong with me
Boogie on reggae woman
Baby can’t you see
I’d like to see both of us
Fall deeply in love
I’d like to see you na…
Under the stars above
Yes I would
I’d like to see both of us
Fall deeply in love – yeah
I’d like to see you in the raw
Under the stars above
So boogie on reggae woman
What is wrong with you
Boogie on reggae woman
What you tryin’ to do
Can I play? Can I play?
No!
Boogie on reggae woman
What is wrong with me
Boogie on reggae woman
What you tryin’ to do
Boogie on reggae woman
Let me do it to you
Boogie on reggae woman
What you tryin’ to do
FOR YOUR LOVE
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All the gold in the world
Is nothing to possess
If all the things that it can bring
Can’t add up to one ounce of your happiness
And for your love
I would do anything
Just to see you smile upon your face
For your love
I would go anywhere
Just you tell me and I’ll be right there
A diamond that shines
Like a star in the sky
Is nothing to behold
For minuscule is any light
If it can’t like you brighten up my soul
And for your love
I would do anything
Just to see you smile upon your face
For your love
I would go anywhere
Just you tell me and I’ll be right there
I could have never fathomed this
Such joy , love and tenderness
That you give to me
For the love I feel inside
It’s so wonderful I can’t hide
And I glow, I glow
With just the thought of you
I do, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do
And for your love
I would do anything
Just to see you smile upon your face
For your love
I would go anywhere
Just you tell me and I’ll be right there
ONE OF A KIND
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There we were two lonely souls
Existing from day to day
Feeling love would never
Come our way
Watching lover share their bliss
Sadly wishing only if
Believing that we had to live
Life like this
But Like a bolt of lightning
As when two stormy clouds collide
We made a joyful happening
To our lives
Now we’re as happy as can be
Me loving you and you loving me
Two hearts intertwined
Which makes us one of a kind
Feeling the charge of a love evermore
Knowing that love is enough to live for
It feels so fine
Sharing love one of a kind
One of a kind now baby
Your love and mine, such ecstasy
One of kind sweet darling
The only way love is meant to be
United love so fine
Living in love one of a kind
It feels nothing but fine
Sharing our love one of kind
-Harmonica Solo-
If we had a second chance
At living a second time
We’d change everything but our love
In our lives
‘Cause like a big disaster
Lost in a never-ending night
We light a light of magic
Now we’re as happy as can be
Me loving you and you loving me
Two hearts intertwined
Which makes us one of a kind
Feeling the charge of a love evermore
Knowing that love is enough to live for
It feels so fine
Sharing love one of a kind
One of a kind, now baby
Your love and mind, such ecstasy
One of a kind, sweet darling
The only way love is meant to be
BIG BROTHER
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Your name is big brother
You say that you’re watching me on the tele,
Seeing me go nowhere,
Your name is big brother,
You say that you’re tired of me protesting,
Children dying everyday,
My name is nobody
But I can’t wait to see your face inside my door
Your name is big brother
You say that you got me all in your notebook,
Writing it down everyday,
Your name is I’ll see ya,
I’ll change if you vote me in as the pres,
The President of your soul
I live in the ghetto,
You just come to visit me ’round election time
I live in the ghetto,
Someday I will move on my feet to the other side,
My name is secluded,
we live in a house the size of a matchbox,
Roaches live with us wall to wall,
You’ve killed all our leaders,
I don’t even have to do nothin’ to you
You’ll cause your own country to fall
BLACK ORCHID
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A flake of snow within a storm
A new way waiting to be born
In a world with need of change
A touch of love in fear of hate
A rushing wind that’s asked to wait
For the promises of rain
A pearl of wisdom entrapped by poverty
She gives love with purity
Filling minds with hopeful schemes
To build worlds enhanced by peace
Draped in sparkling morning dew
She expresses life anew
From the earth beneath her feet
She is a flower that grows
In love ability
She’s femininity
Black Orchid, Black Orchid
Why did they make you begin
When they know in time you’ll find your truth
before your cycle ends
Black Orchid, Black Orchid
Why are you crying their fears
When the true reflection of you that they see
Is love besieged by years
She has touched the farthest star
Her beauty speaks of what we are
And her freedom makes us free
Her now is in eternity
Infinite to all that see
And her dreams have been achieved
Now there is a sound of laughter
Nature signs out her name
For the world to know her fame
Black Orchid, Black Orchid
Why did they criticize
When they knew your love could cast its spell and
consecrate their eyes
Black Orchid, Black Orchid
Why do you linger in space
When you know in every heart that beats
You hold a special place
When you know in every heart that beats
You hold a special place