DON'T LAUGH AT ME

Allen Shamblin                                       Steve Seskin

 

I'm a little boy with glasses

The one they call the geek

A little girl who never smiles

'Cause I've got braces on my teeth

And I know how it feels

To cry myself to sleep

 

I'm the kid on every playground

Who's always chosen last

A single teenage mother

Tryin' to overcome my past

You don't have to be my friend

But is it too much to ask

 

Don't laugh at me

Don't call me names

Don't get your pleasure from my pain

In God's eyes we're all the same

Someday we'll all have perfect wings

Don't laugh at me

 

I'm the cripple on the corner

You've passed me on the street

And I wouldn't be out here beggin'

If I had enough to eat

And don't think I don't notice

That our eyes never meet

 

I lost my wife and little boy when

Someone crossed that yellow line

That day we laid them in the ground

Is the day I lost my mind

And now I'm down to holdin'

This little cardboard sign...so

 

Don't laugh at me

Don't call me names

Don't get your pleasure from my pain

In God's eye we're all the same

Someday we'll all have perfect wings

Don't laught at me

 

I'm fat, I'm thin, I'm short, I'm tall

I'm deaf, I'm blind, hey, aren't we all.

 

Don't laugh at me

Don't call me name

Don't get your pleasure from my pain

In God's eyes we're all the same

Someday we'll all have perfect wings

Don't laugh at me

 

Allen Shamblin's daughter came home from school crying after being teased for having freckles.  Allan wrote this lyric and  Steve Seskin created the melody for this powerfully moving song that  Peter Paul and Mary, and others, have recorded.  Here's a link to my favorite YOU TUBE renditions of  Don't Laugh At Me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLiIPViM2E.