DARK N’ LOVELY
By
Stevie Wonder
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There is a place
On earth’s motherland
Where a people
Die in bantu stands
Manchild at eight
Will face guns of hate
Womanchild’s fate
Is life second rate
Just because they’re dark ‘n’ lovely
Just because they’re dark ‘n’ lovely
They do a dance
called Mbaqana jive
Rainbow people
Dancin’ to stay alive
After hours
Party hand in hand
After Shebeen
Terror strikes again
Just because they’re dark ‘n’ lovely
Just because they’re dark ‘n’ lovely
Dark ‘n’ lovely Dark ‘n’ lovely
Dark ‘n’ lovely
The whole planet’s watchin’
And the Sun God is watchin’, too
Hey there Botha
Yes, we are watchin’ you
Spirits can do
Jah will stop this reign
Watch our world turn
To help those in pain
Just because they’re dark ‘n’ lovely
Just because they’re dark ‘n’ lovely
Just because they’re dark ‘n’ lovely
Just because they’re dark ‘n’ lovely
Dark ‘n’ lovely Dark ‘n’ lovely
MARY ANN
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Well now, oh Mary Ann
Well you sure look fine
Well, oh oh now
I could love you all the time
Well, now oh Mary Ann
I said baby, don’t ya know
Well now, oh oh baby
Don’t ya know
Don’t ya know baby
That I love you so
Oh yeah, Mary Ann
Gonna take you home tonight
Oh baby, yeah, yeah
Gonna take you home tonight
If you let me baby
I said I’ll make everything all right
COLD CHILL
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Feelin young and full of fun
Hangin out with my crew
Hot to trot and about to pop
Tryin to find some girl to get into
There she was fine as can be
Hair braided down to her knees
She took me home, she turned me out
But before sunrise she said I must leave
It was a cold chill on a summer night
Never thought the girlie wouldn’t treat me right
It was a cold chill on a summer day
Never thought the girl would dog me out that way
It was a cold chill on a summer morn
Never cried like a baby since the day I was born
It was a cold chill on a summer eve
Never had no chopper bring me to my knees
I was feeling so trusting
Gave it all right down to the bone
But she did me wrong
On a summer night
Far from meek, and feelin chic
Refusing to concede defeat
There I was same crew, same time
Same club we kicked it at the previous week
I asked her how could she have the nerve
To treat me with such disgrace
She blinked her eyes, smiled, apologized
Threw her drink right in my face
It was a cold chill on a summer night
Never thought the girlie wouldn’t treat me right
It was a cold chill on a summer day
Never thought the girl would dog me out that way
It was a cold chill on a summer morn
Never cried like a baby since the day I was born
It was a cold chill on a summer eve
Never had no chopper bring me to my knees
I was feeling so trusting
Gave it all right down to the bone
But she did me wrong
On a summer night, on a summer night
On a summer night, on a summer night
A cold chill, a cold chill, a cold chill, cold chill
Weekends came and weekends passed
But not the yearning in my heart
And there she was to light the spark
Like she did right from the very start
I took no time, drove to her house
Got deep into a passion high
I heard a knock, the turn of a key
And the voice of another guy
It was a cold chill on a summer night
Never thought the girlie wouldn’t treat me right
It was a cold chill on a summer day
Never thought the girl would dog me out that way
It was a cold chill on a summer morn
Never cried like a baby since the day I was born
It was a cold chill on a summer eve
Never had no chopper bring me to my knees
I was feeling so trusting
Gave it all right down to the bone
But she did me wrong
On a summer night, on a summer night
On a summer night, on a summer night
It was a cold chill
Like standing in the deep freeze
A cold chill
Like when snow’s above your knees
Cold chill
Like sitting at the north pole
A cold chill
Wearing not one stitch of clothes
Cold chill
Like a winter Chicago night
A cold chill
Twenty ice cubes down your back for spite
Cold chill
Stranded in sub-zero degrees
A cold chill
Layed out on the arctic sea
Cold chill
When your fingers get frost bite
A cold chill
Buried beneath ten feet of ice
Cold chill
Baby, that ain’t so nice
A cold chill
SATURN
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Packing my bags-going away
To a place where the air is clean
On saturn
There’s no sense to sit and watch the people die
We don’t fight our wars the way you do
We put back all the things we use
On Saturn
There’s no sense to keep on doing such crimes
There’s no principles in what you say
No direction in the things you do
For your world is soon to come to a close
Through the ages all great men have taught
Truth and happiness just can’t be bought-or sold
Tell me why are you people so cold
I’m……
Going back to Saturn where the rings all glow
Rainbow, moonbeams and orange snow
On Saturn
People live to be two hundred and five
Going back to saturn where the people smile
Don’t need cars cause we’ve learn to fly
On Saturn
Just to live to us is our natural high
We have come here many times before
To find your strategy to peace is war
Killing helpless men, women and children
That don’t even know what they are dying for
We can’t trust you when you take a stand
With a cold expression on your face
Saying give us what we want or we’ll destroy
I’m……
Going back to Saturn where the rings all glow
Rainbow, moonbeams and orange snow
On Saturn
People live to be two hundred and five
Going back to saturn where the people smile
Don’t need cars cause we’ve learn to fly
On Saturn
Just to live to us is our natural high
WITH EACH BEAT OF MY HEART
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Honey, sweet
I’ve got something to say to you in privacy
Something I’d like for you to hear
And only your ears alone
Secretly, I’ve been admiring you intensely
So much so I’d like to settle down with you
And make a home
You are my first breath
My first smile
And my morning cup of tea
Yours is the love
That I pray for
Before I go to sleep
From the time I saw your face
I knew no other could erase
My loving you with each beat of my heart
Until the day I heard you speak
I didn’t know that sound was sweet
Me hearing you in each beat of my heart
There’s a time when playing ends
And the serious begins
Like the love that I felt from the start
With each beat of my heart
Honey, sweet
I soared into a heaven’s galaxy
So hypnotized was I
From seeing all the magic in your eyes
So I bring
To you what’s been a lifetime fantasy
Of being with the only one who can
Create my paradise
You are my first breath
My first smile
And my morning cup of tea
Yours is the love
That I pray for
Before I go to sleep
From the time I saw your face
I knew no other could erase
My loving you with each beat of my heart
Until the day I heard you speak
I didn’t know that sound was sweet
Me hearing you in each beat of my heart
There’s a time when playing ends
And the serious begins
Like the love that I felt from the start
With each beat of my heart
There’s a time when playing ends
And the serious begins
Like the love that I felt from the start
With each beat of my heart
AVE MARIA
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Ave Maria
Gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena
Ave, ave dominus
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus
Et benedictus
Et benedictus fructus ventris
Ventris tuae, Jesus.
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Mater Dei
Ora pro nobis peccatoribus
Ora pro nobis
Ora, ora pro nobis peccatoribus
Nunc et in hora mortis
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Ave Maria