Boxcar Willie Follow

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
No living or loving, nor going nowhere
I wish I was a teddy bear
And I wish that I never had 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
With a sewed on smile and a painted twinkle in my eye
Then I never would've ever had to learn how to cry

I wish I was a teddy bear
No living or loving, nor going nowhere
I wish I was a teddy bear
And I wish that I never had fallen in love with you

I wish I had a string you could pull that would make me say
What you wanna hear from me to make you stay
I'd know every time I spoke the words were right
And no one would know what a mess I've made of my life

I wish I was a teddy bear
No living or loving, nor going nowhere
I wish I was a teddy bear
And I wish that I never had fallen in love with you

I wish I was a teddy bear
No living or loving, nor going nowhere
I wish I was a teddy bear

Shaggy cotton skin and just one set of clothes
Sittin' on a shelf in a local department store