QUIZ: How well do you know the lyrics to Stevie Wonder's biggest songs?

24 March 2025, 10:45

Stevie Wonder lyrics
Stevie Wonder - How well do you know his lyrics? Picture: Getty Images

By Mayer Nissim

Stevie Wonder has been scoring hits for over 60 years, but how well do you know the lyrics to his biggest and best songs?

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Stevie Wonder released his first single way back in 1962, and he's been knocking out the hits non-stop ever since.

From his earliest days as Little Stevie Wonder through his Motown years and stunning 1970s, all the way to 2024's 'Can We Fix Our Nation's Broken Heart' it's been wall-to-wall classics.

But how well do you know the words to Stevie Wonder's biggest songs?

Do you know every rhyme in 'I Just Called to Say I Love You' or what phrase comes next in 'Superstition'?

Put your Stevie knowledge to the test to make sure you can sing along at his next live show. Questions are at the top and the Answers at the bottom of the page.

Questions

1. 13-month-old baby, broke the _____________

2. Until the dolphin flies and ______ live at sea

3. The bus for __________! / Hey bus driver, I'm getting on that, hold it

4. For there's Basie, Miller, Satchmo / And the king of all, ______

5. My money's low and my ________ / When we go out stepping on the town for a while

6. No April rain, no flowers bloom / No _______ within the month of June

7. Oowee baby, you set my _______ That's why I know you're my heart's only desire

8. My cherie amour, lovely as a summer day / My cherie amour, distant as _____________

9. She's a girl in a dream / She sees a ___________ on the TV screen

10. 'Cause my last time on earth, I lived a whole world of _____

11. Will open up our _________ / And feed our empty souls

12. We are strangers by day, ________ / Knowing it's so wrong, but feeling so right

13. Then my only worry was for Christmas, _______________?

14. Isn't she lovely / Isn't she wonderful / Isn't she ______ / Less than one minute old

15. I wore hightop shoes and shirt tails / Suzy was in _______

Stevie Wonder at his keyboards
Stevie Wonder at his keyboards. Picture: Getty Images

Answers

1. Looking glass ('Superstition')

2. Parrots ('As')

3. New York City ('Living For The City')

4. Sir Duke ('Sir Duke')

5. Suit's out of style ('Uptight (Everything's Alright)')

6. Wedding Saturday ('I Just Called To Say I Love You')

7. Soul on fire ('Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours')

8. The Milky Way ('My Cherie Amour')

9. four-eyed cartoon monster ('Too High')

10. Sin ('Higher Ground')

11. Merging hearts ('I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)')

12. Lovers by night ('Part-Time Lover')

13. What would be my toy ('I Wish')

14. Precious ('Isn't She Lovely')

15. Pigtails ('I Was Made To Love Her')