Stevie Wonder – Bedtime For Toys (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
C                       G       C
Close your eyes, beddy bye tin soldier

C                     G
Mommy says that it's time for sleep

F       Em    Am    E        Am
If my folks were wiser and older

Am            D       Am         G
They'd know kids and toys don't need sleep
[Verse 2]
C                    G      C
Don't be bad little cotton dolly

C              G                  C
See how nice Mickey Mouse sleeps now?

F    F#m        C     Am       Dm  D    Dm     E
Even my brass drummer boy has stopped all his noise

A   Dm              G               C
    Cause he knows it's past bedtime for toys
[Speaking]
C              G                                       C
Ya know, every Christmas Santa Claus goes all over the world with his reindeer

C                          C                           C
Sled, and a big bag of toys and he'll come to your house this year too

               F            Dm  Em                    Am                        E       Am
But sometimes, just sometimes, he doesn't have enough time to see every little boy and girl
Because the world is so big
Dm                         D                Am   Dm       D                G
So maybe we should sing a song for all the children that Santa didn't visit
[Verse 3]
C                       G         C
Bless the child who has no tin soldier

C                       G       C
No brass drummer boy to put to bed

F   Em  A       Am  E         Am
He will still grow wiser and older

        D         Am      G
Loving one small rag doll instead
[Verse 4]
C             G        C
He won't have a cotton dolly

C            G                 C
Mickey Mouse won't come to his house

F         F#m      C           Am   Dm              E
Hold that rag doll to your heart,    nothing can destroy

A       Dm       Am         G      Dm    G    C
     The beauty one child finds in one small toy