Released: February 11, 1986
Songwriter: Richard M. Sherman Robert B. Sherman
Producer: Bob Crewe
If'n I was God
Well just for spite
I wouldn't set the sun at night
'til everyone was treated right
By everyone else they see
If'n I was God
I'd fix it so, without explaining
Folks would know, they'd know
What's goin' on inside
Of everyone else like me
Nobody hurts nobody else
Oh no I wouldn't let it be
Nobody have a need to pray
Except for thankin' me
If'n I were God
I'd make us wise
So everyone could realise
That everywhere beneath the sun
Everyone needs, everyone
And God, that ain't half what I would do
If'n I were You-oo-oo-ooo-oo-ooo-hoooo
Oh yeah!
If'n I were God
Love each other, reach out
And touch somebody's hand
Oh yeah-eah!
Well just for spite
I wouldn't set the sun at night
'til everyone was treated right
By everyone else they see
If'n I was God
I'd fix it so, without explaining
Folks would know, they'd know
What's goin' on inside
Of everyone else like me
Nobody hurts nobody else
Oh no I wouldn't let it be
Nobody have a need to pray
Except for thankin' me
If'n I were God
I'd make us wise
So everyone could realise
That everywhere beneath the sun
Everyone needs, everyone
And God, that ain't half what I would do
If'n I were You-oo-oo-ooo-oo-ooo-hoooo
Oh yeah!
If'n I were God
Love each other, reach out
And touch somebody's hand
Oh yeah-eah!
Anthology (1995 Edition)
- Love’s Gone Bad
- That’s What Love Is Made Of
- Dancing Machine
- Never Can Say Goodbye
- I’ll Come Home to You
- Dear Michael
- You Are There
- Just a Little Bit of You
- Cinderella Stay Awhile
- Who’s Looking For A Lover
- Lonely Teardrops
- When I Come Of Age
- To Make My Father Proud (Original Mix)
- Call on Me (Original Mix)
- Don’t Let It Get You Down (Original Mix)
- Melodie (Original Mix)
- Farewell My Summer Love (Original Mix)
- If’n I Was God
- It’s Too Late to Change the Time
- Maybe Tomorrow
- One Day In Your Life
- Take Me Back
- We’re Almost There
- Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone
- Maria (You Were The Only One)
- Rockin’ Robin
- Got to Be There
- In Our Small Way
- Girl Don’t Take Your Love From Me
- I Wanna Be Where You Are
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- Ben
- The Greatest Show On Earth
- People Make The World Go ’Round
- Music And Me
- Happy (Love Theme From ”Lady Sings The Blues”)
- All the Things You Are
- With A Child’s Heart
- You Can Cry On My Shoulder
- Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day
- Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
- We’ve Got A Good Thing Going
- I’ll Be There
- Unreleased Songs
- Looking Back to Yesterday (1986)
- Anthology (1986 Edition) (1986)
- Anthology (1995 Edition) (1995)
- Anthology (2008 Gold Edition) (2008)
- Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection (2009)
- Billie Jean
- Smooth Criminal
- They Don’t Care About Us
- Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
- Man in the Mirror
- Thriller
- Human Nature
- Beat It
- Dirty Diana
- Heal the World
- Bad
- Black or White
- Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough
- Earth Song
- P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
- Rock with You
- The Way You Make Me Feel
- You Are Not Alone
- Remember the Time
- You Rock My World
- Will You Be There
- Scream
- Off the Wall
- The Girl Is Mine