Teddy bear
song
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1. I wish I had button eyes and a red felt nose,
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a
shaggy cotton skin and just one set of clothes,
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sitting
on a shelf in a local department store,
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with
no dreams to dream and nothing to be sorry for.
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I wish I was a teddy bear,
E A
not living or loving nor going
nowhere.
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I wish I was a teddy bear,
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and I'm wishing that I hadn't
fallen in love with you.
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2. I wish I had a wooden heart and a sawdust mind,
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then
your memory wouldn't come around hurting all the time.
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I'd have a sewed on smile and
a painted twinkle in my eye,
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and I
never would have ever had to learn how to cry.
+ CHORUS (orig. moves up
half a note to capo 1st here)
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4. I wish I had a string you could pull to make me say,
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“Hi, I'm Teddy, ain't it a
lovely day ?”
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Then I'd know every time I
spoke the words were right,
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and
no one would know the mess I've made of my life.
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+ CHORUS + And
I'm wishing that I hadn't fallen in love with you.
(Barbara Fairchild)