Wake Up Everybody Lyrics - A Woman's Touch - Thelma Houston

Everybody, everybody 

I want you to listen to me for a little bit right here 

I wanted you to read the newspapers this morning 

Or did you see the evening news 

As you were having dinner with your families last night? 

Well, if you did then you must know that 

This world is now in a whole lot of trouble 

But I don't want you to get discouraged by that, no 

Because I believe that there's a solution to all of this 

Deep down within my soul 

All we have to do is put are heads and hearts together 

You gotta wake up everybody and no more sleeping in bed 

And no more backward thinking, it's time for thinking, ahead 

The world's changed so very much from what it used to be 

There's so much hatred, war and poverty, oh yeah 

Wake up all you teachers, you better teach a new way 

Maybe then they'll listen to what you have to say 

Because they are the ones 

Who's coming up and the world is in their hands 

When you teach the children 

You better teach them the very best you can 

The world won't get no better 

If you just let it be, no no 

The world won't get no better 

You gotta change again, you and me 

Wake up all you doctors, make the old people well 

Because they're the ones who suffer a lot and catch all the hell 

They don't hassle very long before their judgment day 

Won't you make them happy before they pass away? 

Wake up all you builders, it's time to build a new land 

I know we can do it if we all lend a hand 

Only thing we have to do is put it in our minds 

And surely things will work out, they do it every time 

The world won't get no better, oh no 

If we just let it be 

I said the world no no no 

We gotta change it, you will and me 

(Change) 

I want you to sing along with me 

(Change) 

Come on 

(Change, change, change, change) 

Hey, hey, hey 

(Change, change, change, change) 

That's all you gotta do 

(Change, change, change, change) 

Everybody 

(Change, change, change, change) 

No more sleeping in bed, come on 

(Come on wake up) 

We gotta change the world 

Change the world, change the world 

We gotta teach the children 

We gotta teach them well 

(We gotta change it, dear) 

Yeah we do 

(We gotta change it, dear) 

'Cause the world won't get no better 

(Till we change) 

Oh yeah 

(Till we change) 

Come on now 

Change, change, change 

Change, change, change 

Change, change, change