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Date Posted: 02:44:07 08/11/05 Thu
Author: Josephine Kelly
Subject: Re: Help finding name of "Wake up in the morning...." song
In reply to: Pk1i 's message, "Re: Help finding name of "Wake up in the morning...." song" on 15:29:45 07/04/03 Fri

>I found it!!! DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES
>ISRAELITES - 16/04/1969
>1 week at #1 - 14 weeks on chart
>
>Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir
>So that every mouth can be fed
>Poor me Israelites Aah
>
>Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir
>So that every mouth can be fed
>Poor me Israelite
>
>My wife and my kids, they packed up and leave me
>Darling, she said, I was yours to be seen
>Poor me Israelite
>
>Shirt them a-tear up, trousers is gone
>I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde
>Poor me Israelite
>
>
>After a storm there must be a calm
>They catch me in the farm
>You sound your alarm
>Poor a-poor a-poor me Israelite
>
>I said I get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir
>So that every mouth can be fed
>Poor me Israelite Aah
>
>I said my wife and my kids, they are packed up and
>leave me
>Darling, she said, I was yours to be seen
>Poor me Israelites Aah
>
>Look Me shirts them a-tear up, trousers are gone
>I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde
>A-poor a-poor me Israelites Aah
>
>After a storm there must be a calm
>They catch me in the farm
>You sound your alarm
>Poor me Israelite
>A-poor a-poor a-poor me Israelites Aah

When this song first came out and I was much, much younger, I was convinced the top line was "Oh, oh, me ears are alight!" Hope this gives you a smile.....

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