Name: Wake Up Everybody
Duration: 4 min 44 s
Channel: Victor Carstarphan,Gene McFadden,John Whitehead
Description: "Wake Up Everybody" is a song by MitchSoul. Cover version of the 1975 hit from Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes.Song was written by of McFadden & Whitehead,& Victor Carstarphen. Performed on Soul Train on November 22,1975,& has been Number#1 on the Billboard R&B Charts from early 1976.

Wake Up Everybody

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Cover version of the 1975 hit from Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes.Song was written by of McFadden & Whitehead,& Victor Carstarphen. Performed on Soul Train on November 22,1975,& has been Number#1 on the Billboard R&B Charts from early 1976.

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Song Info

Genre

R&B • Cover Songs

Charts

Peak #54

Peak in subgenre #2

Author

Victor Carstarphan,Gene McFadden,John Whitehead

Rights

1975 Warner-Tamerlane Music(BMI)

Uploaded

December 24, 2018

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.3 MB • 128 kbps • 4:44

Story behind the song

The song for Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes was written at a time when our country was seeing record unemployment, housing blight and enormous drug addiction issues. Gas was being rationed and people were uncertain. Yet, these words encourage us that we can do  better because we have the ability to wake up and stop complaining and do something.

Lyrics

Verse 1
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

Verse 2
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

Chorus
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

Verse 3
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'tcha make them happy before they pass away

Verse 4
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 mind
Surely things will work out they do it every time

Repeat Chorus

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