Teddy Bear Song

(Nick Nixon - Don Earl)



I wish I had button eyes and red fat nose

A shaggy cotton skin and just one set of clothes

Sittin' on the shelf in the local department store

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



I wish I was a Teddy Bear

Not living, nor loving, nor going nowhere

I wish I was a Teddy Bear

And I'm wishin' 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 to hurt 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, nor loving, nor going nowhere

I wish I was a Teddy Bear

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



--- Instrumental ---



I wish I had a string you'd pull to make me say

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

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

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



I wish I was a Teddy Bear

Not living, nor loving, nor going nowhere

I wish I was a Teddy Bear

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



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