Just My Soul Responding-Smokey Robinson

[00:17.34]Happy Birthday to you [00:22.48]Happy Birthday to you [00:27.77]Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday [00:33.18]Happy Birthday to you [00:42.50]A few years ago on my birthday [00:48.12]I had just become twenty-one (I remember) [00:53.09]I had a lot to live, said I had a lot to give [00:59.13]Til a man comes to give me a gun [01:03.71]And though that war he sent me to didn't claim me [01:08.77]If I'm bitter don't blame me [01:11.62]It's just my Soul responding [01:17.58]Don't you try to tell me I'm un-patriotic [01:22.19]I deserve an explanation [01:27.65]I can't help but wonder [01:30.68]If you really got it [01:33.04]It's just my Soul responding, Soul responding, Soul responding... [02:10.98]This land once belonged to my father [02:15.48]And to his father before him too [02:20.72]Let me tell you now, I'm on a reservation [02:23.70]Living in a state of degradation [02:27.05]What's a Soul suppose to do [02:31.42]Cause I want out [02:33.01]My human rights [02:34.14]Are now in doubt [02:36.74]When it's just my Soul responding [02:41.99]To seeing little hungry children in the Land of Plenty [02:47.62]Just my Soul responding [02:52.84]To doing lots of needing [02:55.97]But never having any [02:58.00]It's just my Soul responding, Soul responding, Soul responding... [03:30.36]I was born and raised in the ghetto [03:35.52]On the run down side of the track [03:40.52]And there are forces who do everything they can do [03:45.84]To hold me back because my skin is black [03:50.96]Oh, but more and more I mind [03:53.17]Hell, It's about time [03:56.51]It's just my Soul responding [04:01.72]To being second-class in a land I helped to form [04:07.35]Just my Soul responding [04:10.98]To too many roaches and not enough heat to keep my babies warm [04:18.07]In this land I helped to form [04:20.75]I've got too many roaches, and not enough heat to keep my babies warm [04:28.75]It's just my Soul responding, Soul responding, Soul responding, Soul responding [04:44.52]It's just my Soul... [04:53.19]Soul responding...