Ray Stevens: “Everything Is Beautiful”

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, “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. In 2019, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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Lyrics to Ray Stevens’ “Everything Is Beautiful”

All the children of the world

Pretty yellow black and white

They are precious in his sight

Jesus loves the little children of the world

Everything is beautiful

In it’s own way

Like a starry summer night

On a snow covered winter’s day

And 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 thoughts be free

For every hour that passes by

You know the world gets a little bit older

It’s time to realize that people lies

In the eyes of the beholder

And everything is beautiful

In it’s own way

Like a starry summer night

On a snow covered winter’s day, ah sing it children

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

Of the color of his skin

Don’t worry about what shows from without

But the love that lives within

We’re gonna get old again now

Everything is gonna work out fine

Just take a little time to the calm good side my friend

And spittle in out in your mind

And everything is beautiful

In it’s own way

Like a starry summer night

On a snow covered winter’s day, ah sing it children

And everybody’s beautiful

In their own way

Under God’s heaven

The world’s gonna find a way, one more time

Everything is beautiful

In it’s own way

Like a starry summer night

On a snow covered winter’s day

Here is a recent performance of Ray!

And finally, here’s a comedy clip from Ray’s short-lived, but enjoyed variety show!

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