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Janae Johnson, performing at Button Poetry Live, June 2018.
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Stevie Wonder done didn’t music
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backwards backwards meaning he did it
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the wrong way but taught you to do it
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correctly Stevie done made hits you
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didn’t know her hips till you heard them
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playing on a white man’s stereo TV done
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did teach black man to boogie like they
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didn’t know boogie starting a lips work
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his way to their knees back to they
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throat taught them to give a little more
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Stevie done did your happy birthday song
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and have you forget you were singing to
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Martin’s grave then poured red wine on
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each Motown track let it marinate till
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it fed your soul a little bit of the
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choice TV done did cry and to a
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harmonica or two did it bleed into the
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cracks of piano keys done made hits you
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didn’t know her hits to the fourth cover
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of it climbed up the Billboard charts TV
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dad is saying that song Dinny
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done some is so holy you called the
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black version don’t turn every day into
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a black man’s birthday think about it if
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you keep a black song alive you keep a
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black soul live just like that like I
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just called to say that you see that
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Stevie did that
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