This Is A Perfect World - The Staple Singers

This is a perfect world

So let’s stop trying to make it what it’s not

This is a perfect world

So let’s stop trying to make it what it’s not

Everybody’s talking 'bout the world

And wondering what it’s coming to

But it ain’t the world it’s the people in it

That’s a-makin' it hard for you

If you don’t believe

That what I say is true

Then show me the day that the sun will shine

And it verily shines on you

This is a perfect world

So let’s stop trying to make it what it’s not

This is a perfect world

So let’s stop trying to make it what it’s not

I know some people who never

Had a clock or a radio

But they get up every morning

Just by hearing that rooster crow

One day I picked a rose

Fresh from the morning dew

That was the day I made up my mind

To sing this song to you

This is a perfect world

So let’s stop trying to make it what it’s not

This is a perfect world

So let’s stop trying to make it what it’s not

Blacks say they don’t like whites

And the whites say they hate the blacks

Just the other day I saw a man

Puttin' that suntan lotion on his back

We got to get it together

Decide what we’re gonna do

We oughta show the man

Who made us all

That we have it perfect too

This is a perfect world

So let’s stop trying to make it what it’s not

This is a perfect world

So let’s stop trying to make it what it’s not

We gonna stop doing all those things

We ain’t supposed to do

Just take a look around ya

See what He’s done for you

See the world

Ah, and man He put it there

See the flowers He made, see the trees

Ah, He made for you and me

He made a perfect world

This is a perfect world