Just My Soul Responding Smokey Robinson

[Intro]
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Happy birthday to you

[Verse 1]
A few years ago on my birthday
I had just become twenty one
(I remember)
I had a lot to live, said I had a lot to give
Till a man comes to hand me a gun
And though that war he sent me to
Didn't claim me
If I'm bitter don't blame me
It's just my soul responding
Don't you try to tell me I'm un-patriotic
I deserve an explanation
I can't help but wonder if you really got it

[Chorus]
It's just my soul responding
Soul responding, soul responding

[Verse 2]
This land once belonged to my father
And to his father before him too
Let me tell you now, I'm on a reservation
Living in a state of degradation
What's a soul suppose to do?
'Cause I'm out, pushin', right?
I'm not in doubt
When it's just my soul responding
To seeing little hungry children
In the land of plenty
Just my soul responding
To doing lots of deeds
But never having any