☀️ The Daily Boost #831

How we look underneath

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SKIN DEEP
Buddy Guy, Gary Nicholson, and Tom Hambridge

I've been around a while
I know wrong from right
Learned a long time ago
Things ain't always black and white
Just like you can't judge a book by the cover
We all gotta be careful
How we treat one another
I say

Refrain:
Skin deep, skin deep
Underneath we all look the same
Skin deep, skin deep
Underneath, don't we all look the same?

A man in Louisiana
He never called me by my name
He said "boy do this and boy do that"
But I never once complained
I knew he had a good heart
But he just didn't understand
That I needed to be treated
Just like any other man

Refrain

I sat my little child down
When he was old enough to know
I said "Out there in this big wide world
You're gonna meet all kinda folks"
I said "Son, it all comes down to just one simple rule
That you treat everybody just the way
You want them to treat you"

Refrain . . .

(My thanks to the songwriters, Buddy Guy, and all his musical friends, via Playing for Change.)

“Thanks, Robert Frost,”
a poem by David Ray

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