The Teddy Bear Song

(Nick Nixon - Don Earl)



I wish I had button eyes and red fat nose

Shaggy cotton skin and just one set of clothes

Sittin' on a shelf in a local department store

With no dreams to dream and nothin' to be sorry for.



I wish I was a Teddy Bear

Not living or loving, nor going nowhere

I wish I was a Teddy Bear

And I'm wishin' that I hadn't fallen in love with you.



I wish I had a wooden heart and a sawdust mind

Then your mem'ry wouldn't come around hurtin' all the time

I'd have a sewed on smile and a painted twinkle in my eye

And I never would've ever had to learn how to cry.



I wish I was a Teddy Bear

Not living or loving, nor going nowhere

I wish I was a Teddy Bear

And I'm wishin' that I hadn't fallen in love with you.



I wish I had a string you could pull to make me say

Hi, I'm Teddy ain't it a lovely day

Then I'd know everytime I spoke the words were right

And no one would know the mess I made of my life.



I wish I was a Teddy Bear

Not living or loving, nor going nowhere

I wish I was a Teddy Bear

And I'm wishin' that I hadn't fallen in love with you.



And I'm wishing that I hadn't fallen in love with you...