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Stevie Wonder – Higher Ground
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Despite some misconceptions, “Higher Ground” was released before Stevie Wonder’s near-fatal car accident. However, one could be forgiven for this mistake: in the song, Wonder
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Stevie Wonder – Higher Ground (Live/1995)
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[Verse 1] / People keep on learning / Soldiers keep on warring / World keep on turning / 'Cause it won't be too long / [Verse 2] / Powers keep on lying / While your people keep on
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Beyoncé (Ft. Ed Sheeran & Gary Clark Jr.) – Fingertips/Master Blaster (Jammin')/Higher Ground [Live at the "Stevie Wonder Tribute 'Songs In The Key of Life"]
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**FINGERTIPS** / [Intro: Beyoncé] / Yeah / How y'all feeling tonight? / I want you to stand up on your feet life you love Stevie Wonder / If you love Stevie Wonder like i love
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Higher Ground
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Named as the “second greatest cover ever” by Total Guitar magazine, “Higher Ground” was originally written and recorded by Stevie Wonder in in 1973.
Addressing the topic of
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Franky Perez (Ft. The Forest Rangers) – Higher Ground
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People keep on learnin' / Soldiers keep on warrin' / World keep on turnin' / 'Cause it won't be too long / Powers keep on lyin' / While your people keep on dyin' / World keep on
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Glee Cast – Higher Ground
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“Higher Ground” is featured in Wonder-ful, the twenty-first episode of Season Four. It is sung by Mercedes (Amber Riley).
Mercedes comes back to help for Nationals and performs
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Fourplay (Ft. Take 6) – Higher Ground
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[Verse 1] / People keep on learning / And soldiers keep on warring / World keep on turning / 'Cause it won't be too long / [Verse 2] / Powers keep on lying, oh / While your people
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Stevie Wonder – Higher Ground Covers
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See all of “Higher Ground” by Stevie Wonder’s covers
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Higher Ground (Daddy-O Mix)
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[Verse 1] / People keep on learnin' / Soldiers keep on warrin' / The world keep on turnin' / 'Cause it won't be too long / Powers will keep on lyin' / While your people will keep
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Eric Clapton – Higher Ground
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[Verse 1] / People, keep on learnin' / Soldiers, keep on warrin' / World, keep on turnin' / 'Cause it won't be too long, oh no / Powers, keep on lyin' / While your people, they
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Stevie Wonder – Too High
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Stevie Wonder may be blind, but he reads the national landscape, particularly regarding black America, with penetrating insight on Innervisions, the peak of his 1972-73 run of
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The Isley Brothers & Santana – Higher Ground
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People keep on learnin' / Soldiers keep on warrin' / World keep on turnin' / Cause it won't be too long / Powers keep on lyin' / While your people keep on dyin' / World keep on
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Stevie Wonder – If It's Magic (Live/1995)
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[Verse 1] / If it's magic / Then why can't it be everlasting? / Like the sun that always shines / Like the poet's endless rhyme / Like the galaxies in time / [Verse 2] / If it's
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Stevie Wonder – Jesus Children of America
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As a pious man, Wonder uses many of songs to address the state of contemporary religion. In “Jesus Children of America,” Stevie offers both praise and criticism for organized
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Rasmussen – Higher Ground
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“Higher Ground” was Denmark’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. The song is performed by (Jonas Flodager) Rasmussen and written by the Swedish duo Niclas Arn & Karl Eurén
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Stevie Wonder – Redemption Song
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Old pirates, yes, they rob I; / Sold I to the merchant ships-- / Minutes after they took I / From the bottomless pit / But my hand was made strong / By the 'and of the Almighty
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Rolling Stone (Ft. Stevie Wonder) – Stevie Wonder: Innervisions
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The greening of Motown continues apace, with performers who once flourished under the company's autocratic guidelines (the Four Tops, Gladys Knight) seeking success elsewhere while
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Stevie Wonder – Pastime Paradise (Live/1995)
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[Chorus] / They've been spending most their lives / Living in a pastime paradise / They've been spending most their lives / Living in a pastime paradise / They've been wasting most
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Epic Rap Battles of History (Ft. Lilly Singh & T-Pain) – Wonder Woman vs Stevie Wonder
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The two biggest wonders of the world face off (no, not Great Wall vs. Great Pyramid) in rap battle of wonder-ful proportions. Get it? Anyway, DC Superhero and feminist icon Wonder
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India.Arie – Wonderful (Stevie Wonder Dedication)
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(Verse 1) / You are the sunshine of my life, another Shakespeare of your time / You're like a ribbon in the sky, you are a poet's endless rhyme / You take me to a higher ground and
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Stevie Wonder – Ribbon in the Sky
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Ribbon in the Sky was released as a surprise single for the promotion of Stevie Wonder’s greatest-hits compilation album Stevie Wonder’s Original Musiquarium I.
The song peaked at
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Stevie Wonder – Black Man
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[Verse 1] / First man to die / For the flag we now hold high / Was a Black man / The ground where we stand / With a flag held in our hand / Was first the red man's / Guide of a
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Stevie Wonder – Village Ghetto Land (Live/1995)
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[Verse 1] / Would you like to go with me / Down my dead end street? / Would you like to come with me / To Village Ghetto Land? / See the people lock their doors / While robbers
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Olly Murs – Stevie Knows
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[Intro] / Stevie / [Verse 1] / The door's are locked / The night is ready for you / Dinner's still hot / You don't want dessert to spoil / [Pre-Chorus] / So baby, come home, come
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Stevie Wonder – As
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Someone more interested in generating sales would have named this song “Always.” But Stevie already mastered the charts, so he named this song “As”, after the first word in the
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Stevie Wonder – I Wish (Live/1995)
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[Verse 1] / Looking back on when I / Was a little nappy-headed boy (Just this morn', just this morn') / Then my only worry / Was for Christmas, what would be my toy / Even though
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Stevie Wonder – Visions
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This the second track off of his critically acclaimed album, “Innervisions”.
Stevie Wonder talks about an ideal society where we are not only at peace with others but also with
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JT Music (Ft. Neebs Gaming) – The Last Man to Stand
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[Intro] / Here I stand, don't know why, don't know where / Nothing to my name but my stained underwear / Nonetheless, still got swag, check out my hair / Can you spare some 5.56
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