Name: Teddy Bear and Me
Duration: P00H05M13S
Description: Written from 1965 - 2013

Teddy Bear and Me

from Unveiled by Wiley Rinaldi

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Written from 1965 - 2013

lyrics

Just a little boy in play clothes
Happy and carefree:
There was no place in the whole wide world
That I would rather be
Than sitting in a yard
On a cool grassy lawn,
Under a leafy shading tree,
My Teddy Bear on my knee.

Together we’d be playing
Lots of funny games,
Like trying to catch the leaves that fell
Or making up silly names,
Like “Goobie Goobie Goo”
Or, here’s a good one too,
“Fleebie Fleebie Flee”.
My Teddy Bear and me...

Two buttons for his eyes. My buddy, my pal.
Fuzzy, warm and cuddly head to toe.
We lived in a world of make-believe.
Everyday adventuring we’d go.

We wondered about the stars
Blinking in the sky.
Could there be a ladder tall enough
To put them up so high?
We wondered every day.
Could there be a way
We could learn like birds to fly?
My little friend and I.

Many secrets shared
and stories told.
My Teddy, mostly listened.
He’d be there all the while
with his bearish smile.
His button-eyes just glistened.
He’d simply nod his head
Understanding all I’d said
From morning till the sun
snuck off to hide.
Cozily we slept side by side.

Minutes wander into days.
Days march into years.
Kids grow up
as time goes by.
Soon childhood disappears.

Now a little girl is playing,
Her own Teddy Bear on her knee.
They too invent fantastic worlds
Beneath a now sprawling tree.
When evening sings its song
Another day has gone.
There’s dinner and it’s
off to bed they go.
Her Teddy Bear’s in tow.

Her Teddy and she
get ready to sleep.
Hugs and kisses,
they’re tucked in for the night.
Her Mom and I look on with care
Then gently dim down the light.

And there on a shelf sits someone,
Still honored and well-loved,
My cherished old friend with button eyes
Sees everything from above.
My Teddy and I recall
When I was as small as she
After a day of play which started with the dawn
We also drifted off to dreamland with a yawn.
It’s our daughter that we all, now, look upon.
Still our friendship sails on and on.

credits

from Unveiled, released September 9, 2013
Words and music by Wiley Rinaldi

Produced, engineered, and mixed by Daniel Badí Rinaldi at the Center for Audio Recording Arts of Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. October 2012-May 2013

Mastered by Nev Walker in Marietta, Georgia, USA

Wiley Rinaldi: vocals, guitar
Daniel Badí Rinaldi: programming