(Harry Nilsson and Richard Starkey)
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Stop and take the time to smell the roses,
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Stop and take the time to fill your noses,
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Stop as you stroll through life, ("pitter patter, pitter patter")
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Stop and take the time to talk it over with your wife.
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I said, stop and take the time, take the time to read the label,
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Stop, you must remember clark and betty grable.
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Stop, there's no train to catch, no there isn't, rose!
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No, no, no.
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Come on, ev'rybody, you've gotta stop!
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Stop on the highway,
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Stop when you're in a car on that highway,
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Roll down your window,
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Look for a man in a porsche and say,
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"brother, let's get out and walk, let's go! Can you hear me?"
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Stop,
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You know when you're accident prone,
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Nobody likes you.
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Wave to a man in a rolls
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'Cause he knows how to live, ha! Ha!...
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Stop and take the time to stop that smoking,
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Stop, before the light turns green.
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You won't be blue.
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Stop, in the name of the law!
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"well, i was walking down the street the other day,
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You know, and i said to myself, what's all this hurry,
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What's all this hustle and bustle.
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Why don't i just stop, look at the pretty roses,
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Smell them for one moment, take the time to see,
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Take the time to smell, have a good time in life.
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Don't let ev''rything pass you by, you're only here once
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And i've been here longer than most of you."
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So stop and take the time to buy this album,
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So i can plant roses and smell them all day long.
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Stop ev'rything you're doing,
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Run to your local record shop and say,
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"give me that record called 'stop'"
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I'm going crazy with this record business,
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I wanna stop it, you want me to stop it,
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Ev'rybody wants it to stop.
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Stop And Take The Time To Smell The Roses
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| Ringo Starr |
