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"Wake Up Everybody" Recorded by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

11/12/2015

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"Wake Up Everybody"
Written by Victor Carstarphen, Gene McFadden and John Whitehead
Wake up everybody
No more sleepin' in bed
No more backward thinkin' 
Time for thinkin' ahead
The world has changed so very much 
From what it used to be
There is so much hatred 
War an' poverty

Wake up all the teachers
Time to teach a new way
Maybe then they'll listen 
To what you 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
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 the judgment day
So won't you make them happy 
Before they pass away

Wake up all the builders
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
The world won't get no better
We gotta change it, yeah
Just you and me
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 alone
Need some help, y'all

Can't do it alone, can't do it alone
Yeah, yeah
Wake up everybody
Wake up everybody
Need a little help, y'all, yes we do
Need a little help
Say it for us
Need some help y'all
Got to change the world
From what it used to be
Can't do it alone
Need some help, yeah
Need some help, yeah

Wake up everybody
Get up, get up, get up, get up
Wake up, come on, come on
Wake up everybody
Teachers, do it
Maybe then they'll listen 
To what you have to say
Wake up everybody
No more sleepin' in bed
No more backward thinkin'
Time for thinkin' ahead
Come on, now

Wake up everybody
I'm talkin' about don't push that
Stop pushin' that dope
Dope users, stop usin' the dope
Wake up, yeah
Well, what you tell me now
What you wish to tell me now
False lyng, false preachin'
Yeah, yeah, false teachin'

Wake up, y'all, come on
You preachers, start preachin'
What you teach, teach the truth
Wake up, preachers

They're all liars
They're all liars
Politicians, stop lyin'
You keep on lyin'

Why don't somebody
Help the poor people
Help the babies
I said, help the babies
Help the babies

You, businessmen
Stop cheatin', stop cheatin'
Stop cheatin', stop cheatin'
Stop cheatin', stop cheatin'
Wake up, yeah, wake up, yeah
Wake up, yeah, yeah, yeah

Ah, it don't matter what race
Creed or color
Everybody, we need each other
Wake up everybody
Well, you see, we need

Wake up, everybody, we need
Come on, wake up everybody
No more sleepin' in bed
No more backward thinkin'
Time for thinkin' ahead

Wake up all you teachers
Start to teach a new way
They're the ones that suffer
Each and every day
Teach the children
Teach the babies
Teach the babies
Teach the children
Teach the children
Teach the babies
Teach the children
Teach the babies
They're the one who's coming up
In the world, in the world
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