DO LIKE YOU
By
Stevie Wonder
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Show me how to do like you
If you say please
Please
Since age one Keita knew he had the answer
And it was that someday he’d be a dancer
And with help from his sis
Surely that boy would not miss
From being the baddest dancer in the whole neighborhood
Late at night when he was supposed to be sleeping
You could hear the pitter patter of feet creeping
To where music would play
To his sister he would say
Before his father said hey boy get right back in that bed
Show me how to do like you
Show me how to do it
Show me how to do like you
Show me how to do it
– Can you rock can you rock
Show me how to do like you
Can you rock around the clock, can you rock
Show me how to do it
– Can you rock can you rock
Show me how to do like you
Can you rock around the clock, can you rock
Once at school they put on a talent contest
To find out who could really boogy the best
But his mama said no
Keita’s much too young to go
But his sister said please let him go so the world can see
When they saw him they said he must be crazy
Look at him he ain’t nothing but a baby
But soon as he began
You knew the contest he would win
Because everyone in the audience began to cheer
Show me how to do like you
Show me how to do it
Show me how to do like you
Show me how to do it
– Can you rock can you rock
Show me how to do like you
Can you rock around the clock, can you rock
Show me how to do it
– Can you rock can you rock
Show me how to do like you
Can you rock around the clock, can you rock
Show me how to do it
– Can you rock can you rock
Show me how to do like you
Can you rock around the clock, can you rock
Show me how to do it
Ooh, you done broke Mama’s lamp
Uh, uh
Yes you did
No I didn’t
THINK OF ME AS YOUR SOLDIER
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Think of me as your soldier
The man whose life is for you
And the sweet love
That’s greater than time has known
Think of me as your soldier
Through worlds of hate I’m for you
Tho’ the darkness hits me ever hard
I’ll stand long
And we’ll be lovers seeing love by heaven’s light
Lovers dreaming dreams each blessed by night
I will find the promised paradise
With you there I’ll spend my life
In our hearts there are no others
We are bound as two lovers
To give the great eternal love
And we’ll be lovers seeing love by heaven’s light
Lovers dreaming dreams each blessed by night
I will find the promised paradise
With you there I’ll spend my life
I’ll spend my life
Think of me, girl, as your soldier
Through worlds of pain I’m for you
To give an endless love
To give an endless love
To give an endless love
To you….
DROWN IN MY OWN TEARS
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It brings a tear,
Into my eyes,
When I begin,
To realize,
I’ve cried so much,
Since you’ve been gone,
I guess I’m drowning in my own tears,
I sit and cry,
Just like a child
My pouring tears
Are runnin’ wild
If you don’t think
You’ll be home soon
I guess I’ll drown in my own tears
I know it’s true
Into each life
Some rain, rain must pour
I’m so blue
Here without you
It keeps raining
More and more
Why don’t you
Come on home
Oh yes so I won’t
Be all alone
If you don’t think
You’ll be home soon
I guess I’ll
(drown in my own tears)
Ooh, don’t let me
(drown in my own tears)
When I’m in trouble, baby
(drown in my own tears)
Oh, yeah, baby don’t let me
(drown in my own tears)
I guess I’ll drown in my own tears
Oh, mmmmm.
MY LOVE IS WITH YOU
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I was just walking down the street
Looking forward to seeing the friends I was to meet
Yet what happened so tragically
Really makes for no sense at all
Suddenly two guys confronted me
Saying I was in the wrong turf, angrily
They said their colors were black but I was wearing gray
I started to turn to go back
They up and blew me away
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with, where ever you are –
Though my life they’ve taken
They can’t take what we’ve shared
Spread the love I’ve given
And I’ll be there
I was out playing with my friends
You know, doing silly things that kids do at ten
But the crossfire I was caught in
Should not have been in the first place
A dropped Monte Carlo came to a screech
Someone yelled “nobody gets away with dissent me”
Across the street a man pulled his nine
Everybody started to run
A shower of bullets rang out
Mistakenly my life was done, oh
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with, where ever you are –
Though my life they’ve taken
They can’t take what we’ve shared
Spread the love I’ve given
I’ll be there
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with, where ever you are –
When you’re joyful
When you’re lonely
When you’re happy
When tears are streaming right down your face
In the morning
In the noon time
In the evening
In the wee wee hours of the night time hour
In the summer
In the springtime
In the autumn
In the cold long winter, winter nights
My love is with you
My love is with you my best friend
My love is with you my brother
My love is with you my sister
My love is with you my mother
My love is with you my father
I’m with you –
Ban the hand gun – chant
JESUS CHILDREN OF AMERICA
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Hello Jesus
Jesus children
Jesus loves you
Jesus children
Hello children Jesus loves you of America
Are you hearing
What He’s saying ?
Are you feeling
What you’re praying ?
Are you hearing, praying, feeling
What you say inside ?
You’d better tell
Your story fast…
And if you lie
It will come to pass…
Tell me!
Tell me holy
Holly roller
Holly roller
Are you standing
Are you standing
Like a soldier ?
Like a soldier ?
Waell…
Are you standing for everything you talk about ?
Holly roller…
Say
Tanscen
Transcendental
Dental meditation
Meditation
Speaks of
Speaks of inner
Inner preservation
Preservation
Waell…
Transcendental meditation gives you peace of mind
Peace of mind
You’d better tell
Your story fast…
And if you lie
It will come to pass…
Tell ’em
Don’t lie to ’em
Don’t tell lies
Tell ’em
Don’t lie to ’em
Ooh, hu hu…uh uh uh…yeah
Tell ’em
Don’t lie to ’em
Don’t tell lies
Tell ’em
Tell ’em Jesus
Tell me
Tell me junkie
If you’re able
If you’re able
Playing
Are you playing your cards
On the table
On the table
Yeah…
Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein
Hey hey
Tell the children
Hey hey hey
Jesus
Jesus died on
Cross for you
Cross for you
Mary
Mary is just
Looking at you
Looking at you
Yeah…
Mother Mary feels so much pain
Looking at him
So, you better tell
Tell your story fast…
Tell your story, story!
And if you lie
Yeah, tell your story
It will come to pass
Yeah, tell your story, story!
Um…um I need you Jesus
FRONT LINE
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I am a veteran of the war
I up and joined the army back in 1964
At sixteen I just had to be a man at any cost
I volunteered for Vietnam where I got my leg shot off
I recall a quote from a movie that said “who’s more a man
Than a man with a reason that’s worth dyin’ for”
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin’ ahead
They gave me a uniform and a tiny salty pill
To stop the big urge I might have for the wrong kind of thrill
They put a gun in my hand and said, “shoot until he’s dead”
But it’s hard to kill when ‘please your friend’ echoes through your head
Brought up in church taught no man should take another’s life
But then put in a jungle where life has no price
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin’ ahead
Back in the world the paper reads today
Another war is in the brewing
But what about the lives of yesterday
And the many happy families that have been ruined
My niece is a hooker and my nephew’s a junkie too
But they say I have no right to tell them how they should do
They laugh and say “quit bragging” ’bout the war you should never have been in
But my mind is so brain-washed I’d prob’bly go back and do it again
I walk the neighborhood parading my purple heart
With a fear of agent orange that no one will stop
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin’ ahead