New Year Resolution #2 for RCC this new year 2025 – Try a little tenderness

A rewriting of a song by Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, and Harry M. Woods. The rewriting is with a purpose and we had in our heads the Otis Redding soul classic.

Residential carers may be weary
Those carers do get weary
You always leave them feeling under duress, yeah yeah
So knowing that they’re weary
Try a little tenderness, yeah yeah

You know they’re waiting
Just anticipating
For things that they hope they one day may possess, yeah yeah
While they’re there waiting, without them
Try a little tenderness (that’s all you gotta do)

It’s not just sentimental, no, no, no
They have their beliefs and they care, yeah yeah yeah
When soft words, they are spoke so gentle, yeah
It makes it easier, easier to bear, yeah

You won’t regret it, no, no
Noone can forget it
Love is their longed for happiness, yeah
Y’know it’s all so easy
All you gotta do is try, try a little tenderness, yeah
All you gotta do is, man, tell them that you want them

Please them, don’t tease them, never leave them
Why not get to try, just try
Just try a little tenderness, ooh yeah yeah yeah
You got to know how to love them, man, you’ll be surprised, man
You’ve got to please them, don’t tease them, never leave
You’ve got to hold them and talk real softly
Try a little tenderness, ooh yeah yeah yeah
You’ve got to treat them gentle man, all you gotta do, go , go
You’ve got to love them, please them,  don’t tease them
Gotta try nah nah nah, try
Try a little tenderness, yeah, watch them groove
You’ve gotta to know what to do, man
Take this advice