I Wish I Could Sing - R Stevie Moore

I wish I could sing

Lullabies to you

Can you teach me how?

All I do is talk a melody

But it don’t come out a rhapsody

Cover up your ears if you can

You don’t know how bad I am

I wish I was Bing

Young at 24

Entertaining now

When I try to sing a melody

They all throw tomatoes at me

Listen to Sinatra and see

God didn’t give that to me

I escaped the draft by my ear

I told them I couldn’t hear

(What'd you say?)

Tony Orlando won’t teach me

Nobody thinks they can reach me

(I wonder why… oh)

I wish I could sing

On the radio

I could teach me how

All I do is talk a melody

But it don’t come out a recipe

I wish I could sing lullabies to you

I wish I could sing lullabies to you

I wish I could sing just as good as you

I wish I could sing harmonies for you