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Wake Up Everybody
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes & Teddy Pendergrass
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Wake up everybody, no more sleeping in bed
No more backward thinking, time for thinking ahead
The world has changed so very much
From what it used to be so
There is so much hatred, war an' poverty, whoa
Wake up all the teachers, time to teach a new way
Maybe then they'll listen to whatcha have to say
'Cause they're the ones who's coming up, and the world is in their hands
When you teach the children, teach 'em the very best you can
The world won't get no better if we just let it be
(No, no, no, no, no)
The world won't get no better
We gotta change it, yeah, just you and me
Wake up all the doctors make the ol' people well
They're the ones who suffer an' who catch all the hell
But they don't have so very long before their Judgment Day
Won'tcha make them happy before they pass away?
Wake up all the builder's time to build a new land
I know we can do it if we all lend a hand
The only thing we have to do is put it in our minds
Surely things will work out, they do it every time
The world won't get no better if we just let it be
(No, no, no, no, no)
The world won't get no better
We gotta change it, yeah, just you and me (yeah, yeah)
Change it, yeah (change it, yeah), just you and me
Change it, yeah (change it, yeah) can't do it alone (can't do it alone0
Need some help, y'all (y'all)
Can't do it alone (can't do it alone)
Yeah (yeah)
Wake up, everybody
Wake up, everybody
Get up, get up, get up