A Child Is Waiting (stripped version) chords by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

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Verse 1
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Everyone
today is talking about ecology.
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Saying there are too
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many people on the earth
and we should limit the amount
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of children we have.
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Well folks forget
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there's a way to enlarge upon your family
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and at the same time help mankind
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solve some of its problems.
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How? It's   easy.
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By opening your home and your heart
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to one of the thousands of
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children in this world
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who have   no place in it yet.
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Kids of every color and of every creed,
each with a different personality
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but with a common need.
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A child is waiting for you somewhere.
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A child is waiting with love to share.
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A  life that
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Starts the day you open your heart
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And open your arms and care
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Shh, a child is praying
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somewhere tonight
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A child is praying  with all its might
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For you to hear the song
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its lonely heart cries
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And open your eyes to     see
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Little arms stretching out
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Pleading take me above
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I need hope, I need you to need me
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The Lord will bless us
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Who do  what we must
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But blessed is he
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Who gives a homeless child a home?
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A child is       waiting for
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you somewhere
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A child is waiting with love to share
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And the joy that will come
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When two hearts become one
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Wait no more, lonely child,
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I'll be there
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Wait no more, child, I'll be there
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Wait no more, lonely child, I'll   be there
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Wait no more, lonely child,
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I'll   be  there
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Wait no more, lonely child, I'll be there
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Wait no more, lonely child, I'll   be there
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Wait no more, lonely child, I'll be there