Just My Soul Responding Lyrics - Smokey - Smokey Robinson

Happy birthday to you 

Happy birthday to you 

Happy birthday, happy birthday 

Happy birthday to you 

A few years ago on my birthday 

I had just become twenty one 

(I remember) 

I had a lot to live, said I had a lot to give 

Til a man comes to give me a gun 

And though that war he sent me to 

Didn't claim me 

If I'm bitter don't blame me 

It's just my soul responding 

Don't you try to tell me I'm un-patriotic 

I deserve an explanation 

I can't help but wonder if you really got it 

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It's just my soul responding 

Soul responding, soul responding 

This land once belonged to my father 

And to his father before him too 

Let me tell you now, I'm on a reservation 

Living in a state of degradation 

What's a soul suppose to do? 

'Cause I'm out, pushin', right? 

I'm not in doubt 

When it's just my soul responding 

To seeing little hungry children 

In the land of plenty 

Just my soul responding 

To doing lots of deeds 

But never having any 

It's just my soul responding 

Soul responding, soul responding 

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I was born and raised in the ghetto 

On the run down side of the track 

And there are forces who do everything they can do 

To hold me back because my skin is black 

Oh but more and more I mind 

Hell, it's about time 

It's just my soul responding 

To being second-class in a land I helped to form 

Just my soul responding 

To too many roaches and not enough heat 

To keep my babies warm 

In this land I helped to form 

I've got too many roaches and not enough heat 

To keep my babies warm 

It's just my soul responding 

Soul responding, soul responding