If only I could sing

If only I could sing

I mean belt out those lyrics like nobody's business

Sound a Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Baritone or Bass

I would glide across that stage like Michael Jackson

Swing my sexy hips like Elvis

Pull at your heart strings like Whitney

Make you swoon like Celine

Go "Singing in the rain" with Gene Kelly

I'm singing in the rain

Yes, singing in the rain

What a glorious feeling

And I'm happy again

"Wake up and live", with Bob Marley

Have my "Natural mystic flowing through the air", or stage a righteous gosh darn "Uprising"

I would be the biggest rebel

Raging against the system

Although that has already been done so many times

Yet, it needs a new revival

"The system, the system is a fraud" one writer says

I would walk barefoot and write and sing like the Jamaican talent

of Mutabaruka and his Books of Poetry

Poet, musician, actor, educator, talk show host, lecturer

Books of Poetry

Outcry (1973)

Sun and Moon (1976) - with Faybiene

The Book: First Poems (1980)

The Next Poems (2005)

I would sing the lyrics to the Jamaican Patois poems of our famous national treasure Louise Bennett

Poem in Patois by our affectionately named "Miss Lou".

Translation:

You are so grudgeful. I may not be a cook

But I did get a good education, and I am very intelligent

You illiterate fool, I am sorry for the man who loves you

The poor thing will probably starve, when you half cook his salted fish

And undercook his yam~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I want to sing like all the famous black women...Gladys Knight...Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Tina Turner, Chaka Khan, Donna Summer, Diana Ross. The list goes on.

Or just go crazy with some random lyrics.

Lost Frequencies & Zonderling song - Crazy

Here are some poems about singing: Didn't write them but they are cool. Not sure who did write em

Singing is something, I constantly do, Even when, I'm tying my shoe. Listening to music, is so fun and sweet, When I hear my songs, they wake both my feet.

Everyone suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight, As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards and dark-green fields; on - on - and out of sight. Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted.

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Here’s a poem about singing by Denise Larkin and Vidar Nordli-Mathisen:

"Singing is bliss Singing is joyous Singing gives the soul A happy glow.

The lilting of the voice Like a blossoming flower To a higher power.

The sound of the voice A calming release A resounding experience

To feel a blissful elation A joyous gratification.

So, if you need, Sing a happy song, The trueness of your heart"

Lyrics to carpenter's Sing

Sing

Sing a song

Sing out loud

Sing out strong

Sing of good things

Not bad

Sing of happy

Not sad

Sing

Sing a song

Make it simple

To last your whole life long

Don't worry that it's not good enough

For anyone else to hear

Just sing

Sing a song

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La-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la-la

Sing (sing)

Sing a song (sing)

Let the world

Sing along

Sing of love there

Could be

Sing for you and

For me

Sing

Sing a song

Make it simple

To last your whole life long

Don't worry that it's not good enough

For anyone else to hear

Just sing

Sing a song

(Just sing)

(Sing a song)

Just sing

Sing a song

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