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Take Up A Course In Happiness

This version of Take Up A Course In Happiness was released by Stevie Wonder in 1971.

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When life reaches out and takes you
On an unpleasent ride
And your bridge of dreams comes
Tumblin’ down
Don’t let your bed of sorrow
Ever conquer your pride
Remember there’s always a way out

Just take up a course in happiness
Take up a course to clear out your mind
You will show yourself how to smile
Take up a course in happiness
Take up a free instruction in life
You will learn how to smile

And when your optimism
Has a set back or two
And you feel all your tryin’s in vain
(Your heart’s in the rain)
Don’t give up the hope that’s due you
Just to study your doubt
Remember there’s always a way out

Just take up a course in happiness
Take up a course to clear out your mind
You will show yourself how to smile
Take up a course in happiness
Take up a free instruction in life
You will learn how to smile

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Stevie Wonder has released many songs over the years besides Take Up A Course In Happiness. Stevie Wonder released songs from 1962 to 2005 spanning across albums like Tribute To Uncle Ray, Down To Earth, Uptight (Everything's Alright), I Was Made To Love Her, Someday At Christmas, For Once In My Life, My Cherie Amour, Signed, Sealed And Delivered, Where I'm Coming From, Talking Book, Music Of My Mind, Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale, Songs In The Key Of Life, Stevie Wonder's Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants, Hotter Than July, Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium, The Woman In Red, In Square Circle, Characters, Jungle Fever, Conversation Peace, Natural Wonder, and A Time To Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Stevie Wonder.

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You can understand the lyrics to Take Up A Course In Happiness if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Take Up A Course In Happiness" means the words set to the music of Take Up A Course In Happiness, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Stevie Wonder. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Take Up A Course In Happiness and the lyrics to Take Up A Course In Happiness are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Stevie Wonder who came here looking just for the lyrics to Take Up A Course In Happiness, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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