Everything Is Beautiful

Album

Everything Is Beautiful

Label

Barnaby Records

Genre

Country

Composer(s)

Ray Stevens (aka Harold Ragsdale)

Entered Chart

Apr 4, 1970

Peak Date

May 30, 1970

Released

March 1970

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Barnaby 2011

B-Side

A Brighter Day

A very popular and family-friendly entertainer throughout the '60s, Ray Stevens was given his own TV variety show in 1970 called The Ray Stevens Show, which lasted just one season as a summer replacement. He wrote the uplifting "Everything Is Beautiful" as the theme for the show. Stevens explained to mybestyears.com, "I needed a very special song for the program. I went down in my basement for about three days. I had crumpled paper all over the place. And suddenly the idea for the song came to me. I wrote it in maybe 45 minutes. It was a very special song and one that a lot of people still remember and sing along when I do it in shows." This is a rare hit for Stevens that was not a novelty recording. He was better known for comedy songs like "The Streak," "Ahab, The Arab," and "Harry The Hairy Ape." This won Stevens his first Grammy. It won for Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male. >> Stevens was backed on this track by his two daughters and a second-grade class from Oak Hill Elementary School in Nashville, Tennessee. The song opens with the children's chorus singing the first two lines of a popular bible school hymn, "Jesus Loves The Little Children." More songs from Ray Stevens

Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world
Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world

Everything is beautiful in its' own way
Like a starry summer night or a snow covered winter's day
Everybody's beautiful in their own way
Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way

There is none so blind as he who will not see
We must not close our minds, we must let our thought be free
For every hour that passes by, you know the world gets a little bit older
It's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder

Everything is beautiful in its' own way
Like a starry summer night or a snow covered winter's day
Ah, sing it children
Everybody's beautiful in their own way (everybody's beautiful, oh, in their own way )
Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way

We shouldn't care about the length of his hair or the color of his skin
Don't worry about what shows from without but the love that lives within
We're gonna get it all together now and everything gonna work out fine
Just take a little time to look on the good side my friend
And straighten it out in your mind

And everything is beautiful in its' own way (yeah, yeah)
Like a starry summer night or a snow covered winter's day
Ah, sing it children
Everybody's beautiful in their own way (everybody's beautiful, oh, in their own way )
Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way

One more time
Everything is beautiful in its' own way (everybody's beautiful, oh, in its' own way)
Like a starry summer night or a snow covered winter's day