The Teddy Bear Song Songtext
von Barbara Fairchild

I wish I had button eyes and a red felt nose
Shaggy cotton skin and just one set of clothes
Sittin′ on a shelf in a local department store
With no dreams to dream and nothin' to be sorry for

I wish I was a teddy bear
Not livin′ or lovin' nor goin' nowhere
I wish I was a teddy bear
And I′m wishin′ that I hadn't fallen in love with you

I wish I had a wooden heart and a sawdust mind
Then your memory wouldn′t come around hurtin' all the time
I′d have a sewed-on smile and a painted twinkle in my eye
And I never would have ever had to learn how to cry


I wish I was a teddy bear
Not livin' or lovin′ nor goin' nowhere
I wish I was a teddy bear
And I'm wishin′ that I hadn′t fallen in love with you

I wish I had a string you could pull to make me say
Hi, I'm Teddy, ain′t it a lovely day?
Then I'd know every time I spoke the words were right
And no would know the mess I made of my life

I wish I was a teddy bear
Not livin′ or lovin' nor goin′ nowhere
I wish I was a teddy bear
And I'm wishin' that I hadn′t fallen in love with you
And I′m wishin' that I hadn′t fallen in love with you