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Mighty Mighty Spade And Whitey

Everybody's Talking
About This Country's State
We Get A New Power Every Hour
Just About In Every Christian Fate
We're Killing Up Our Leaders
It Don't Matter None
Black Or White
And We All Know It's Wrong
And We're Gonna Fight To Make It Right

And Mighty, Mighty Spade And Whitey
Your Black And White Power
Is Gonna Be A Crumbling Tower
And We Who Stand Divided
So God Damn Undecided
Give This Some Thought
In Stupidness We've All Been Caught
There Really Ain't No Difference
If You're Cut You're Gonna Bleed
Might I Get A Little Bit Deeper
Human Life Is From The Semen Seed

Now I'm Gonna Say It Loud
I'm Just As Proud As The Brothers Too
And Just Like The Rest
I Don't Want No Mess About
Who's Taking Who
Repeat

1969 Carnad Music (Bmi)

I Plan To Stay A Believer

I Plan To Stay A Believer
I Plan To Stay A Believer
I Met A Frlend Of Mine The Other Day
He Said He Couldn't Stay
Because The World Was Going To End
At The End Of May.
Well, May Done Passed,
And EveryBody Still Sittin Here On Their Ass.
With Some Talk,
They're Now Waiting For The Judgment Day.

But Why Wait,
Why Don't You Look Around,
Haven't You Found,
That The Judgment Day
Is Already In Play,
For The Black,
And Now Come Time,
For The Old Faye
And I Plan To Stay A Believer

I Plan To Stay A Believer
I Plan To Stay A Believer

I Got An Indian Friend
Who Says He's Some Kin To Another Indian,
He says He's Filled With Hate
Because His Tribe They Waited Too Late
To Protest The Past
Instead They Just Sat There On Their Ass,
Signing On The Dotted Line,
When They Didn't Have Indian Lawyers At That Time.

We're Over 20 Million Strong
And It Wouldn't Take Long
To Save The Ghetto Child,
If We'd Get Off Our Ass,
$10 A Man Yearly
Think Awhile
20 Million Times 10 Yearly
Would Surely Then Set Our Brothers Free
What Congregation With Better Relations
Would Demand More Respect From Society...

I Plan To Stay A Believer
I Plan To Stay A Believer
I Plan To Stay A Believer

1971 Camad Music (Bmi)

People Get Ready

People Get Ready
There's A Train A Comin'
You Don't Need No Baggage
You Just Get On Board
All You Need Is Faith
To Hear The Diesels Hummin'
You Don't Need No Ticket
You Just Thank The Lord

People Get Ready
There's A Train To Jordan
Picking Up Passengers
Coast to Coast
Faith Is The Key
Open The Doors And Board Them
There's Hope For All Among Those Loved The Most
There Ain't No Room For The Hopeless Sinner
Whom Would Hurt All Mankind
Just To Save His Own
Have Pity On Those Whose Chances Grow Thinner
For There Is No Hiding Place Against The Kingdom's Throne

People Get Ready
There's A Train A Comin'
You Don't Need No Baggage
Just Get On Board
All You Need Is Faith
To Hear The Diesels Hummin'
You Don't Need No Ticket
You Just Thank The Lord.

1964 Chi Sounds (Bmi)

Stare And Stare

Stare And Stare
I Look Across The Aisle At The Process He Wears
While People Sitting Back Digg-Ing My Nappy Hair.
A Sister Standing, And No One Even Cares
We're All Just Riding With Our Nose In The Air.
Another Stop On The Bus, Some People Boarding,
Different Color Then Us, They Hate To Mingle,
But No One Makes A Fuss, The Thing About It
There's No One Here We Can Trust.
Of All The Sunday Times Of Preaching
Where All The Folks That The Scripts Been Reachin.
They're Hard To Find, Like It's A Crime To Do Of Good And BrotherHood
Seems No One Will And The Only Thrill Is Doing Bad
And That's Kind Of Sad.
So All I'm Trying To Say, Is What A Way,
What A Way To Waste The Day. The
Black And The Old Faye Working The Same Jobs For The Pay
But It Seems Here Lately We Have Nothing To Say.

Stare And Stare
I Look Across The Aisle At The Process He Wears
While People Sitting Back Digging My Nappy Hair.
A Sister Standing, And No One Even Cares
We're All Just Riding With Our Nose In The Air.
Another Stop On The Bus
Some People Boarding, Different Color Than Us.
They Hate To Mingle, But No One Makes A Fuss
The Thing About It, There's No One Here We Can Trust.

Of All The Sunday Times Of Preachin
Here All The Folks That The Scrlpts Been Reachin.
They're Hard To Find,
Like It's A Crime To Do Of Good And Brotherhood
Seems No One Will And The Only Thrill
Is Doing Bad And That's Kind Of Sad.
So All I'm Trying To Say
Is What A Way, What A Way
To Waste The Day
The Black And The Old Faye Working The Same Jobs For The Pay
But It Seems Here Lately, We Have Nothing To Say
1971 Camaci Music

Check Out Your Mind

Here's Something That You Never Had
It's Slid In On An Oily Rag
The Price Is Right Up On The Tag
I'll Put It In A Brand New Bag
This Thing Will Let You Be Yourself
And Won't Offend Nobody Else
Nothing Like You Ever Saw And It's Not Against The Law

Why Don't You Check Out Your Mind, Been With You All The Time

People Thinking They Been Took
Just Finding Out They Overlooked
They Never Found The Missing Link
Forgot They Had A Mind To Think

Why Don't You Check Out Your Mind, Been With You All The Time
Why Don't You Check Qut Your Mind, Been With You All The Time
Check Out Your Mind, Check Out Your Mind, Check Out Your Mind

Trust In Me And I In You No Matter What You See Me Do
I'm Doing Me For All I'm Worth, None Do Me Better On This Earth

Why Don't You Check Out Your Mind, Been With You All The Time
Why Don't You Check Out Your Mind, Been With You All The Time
Why Don't You Check Out Your Mind. Been With You All The Time
Why Don't You Check Out Your Mind
Why Don't You Check Out Your Mind
Why Don't You Check Out Your Mind
Why Don't You Check Out Your Mind
1970 Curtorn Piiblishing

Gypsy Woman

From Nowhere Thru A Caravan Around The Campfire Light
A Lovely Woman In Motion With Hair As Dark As Night
Her Eyes Were Like That Of A Cat In The Dark
That Hypnotized With Love

She Was A Gypsy Woman, She Was A Gypsy Woman

She Danced Around And Round To A Guitar Melody
From The Fire Her Face Was All Aglow
How She Enchanted Me
Oh How I'd Like To Hold Her Near
And Kiss And Forever Whisper In Her Ear

I Love You. Gypsy Woman

All Thru The Caravan She Was Dancing With All The Men,
Waiting For The Rising Sun, Everyone Was Having Fun
I Hate To See The Lady Go Knowing She'll Never Know That I Love Her, That I Love Her

She Was A Gypsy Woman
1961 Curtom Publishing (Bmi)

The Makings Of You

Add A Little Sugar Honey Suckle
And A Great Big Expression Of Happiness
Boy You Couldn't Miss
With A Dozen Roses
Such Will Astound You
The Joy Of Children Laughing Around You
These Are The Makings Of You

It Is True The Makings Of You
The Righteous Way to Go
Little One Would Know
Or Believe if I Told Them So
You're Second To None

The Love Of All Mankind
Should Reflect Some Sign Of These Words
I've Tried To Recite
They're Close But Not Quite
Almost Impossible To Do
Describing The Makings Of You

1970 Curtom Publishing (Bmi)

We're A Winner

We're A Winner
And Never Let Anybody Say
Boy You Can't Make It Cause
A Feeble Mind Is In Your Way
No More Tears Do We Cry
And We Have Finally
Dried Our Eyes

And We're Movin' On Up.
Lawd Have Mercy
We're Movin' On Up

We're Living Proof
In All's Alert
That We're True
From The Good Black Dirt

And We're A Winner
And Everybody Knows It Too
We'll Just Keep On Pushin'
Like Your Leaders Tell You To

At Last That Blessed Day Has Come
Send I Don't Care
Where You Come From

We're All Movin' On Up
I Don't Mind Leavin' Here
To Show The World
We Have No Fear
Cause We're A Winner

We're A Winner
And Never Let Anybody Say,
Boy You Can't Make It, Cause
A Feeble Mind Is 1n Your Way.
No More Tears Do We Cry
The Black Boy Done Dried His Eyes.

We're Movin' On Up,
Lawd Have Mercy, We're Movin' On Up

There'll Be No More Uncle Tom
At Last That Blessed Day Has Come

And We're A Winner
And Everybody Knows It Too.
We'll Just Keep On Pushin'
Like Martin Luther King Told Us To.

And I Don't Mind Leavin' Here
To Show The World We Have No Fear

Cause We're Movin On Up.
Lawd Have Mercy,
We're Movin On Up

So People Get Ready,
I've Got Good News For You
How We Got Over
Like We're All Suppose To Do.
Let Us All Say Amen
And Together We'll Clap Our Hands

Cause We're Movin On Up,
Lawd Have Mercy,
We're Movin On Up.

1961 Camad Music (Bmi)

(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Gonna Go

Sisters, Brothers And The Whities
Blacks And The Crackers
Police And Their Backers
They're All Political Actors

Hurry, People Running From Their Worries
While The Judge And His Juries
Dictate The Law That's Partly Flaw.
Cat Calling Love Balling Fussing And Cussing

Top Billing Now Is Killing
For Peace No One Is Willing
Kind Of Make You Get That Feeling

Everybody Smoke
Use The Pill And The Dope
Educated Fools
From-Uneducated Schools

Pimping People Is The Rule
Polluted Water In The Pool

And Nixon Talking About Don't Worry
He Says Don't Worry
He Says Don't Worry
He Says Don't Worry

But They Don't Know There Can Be No Show
And If There's A Hell Below We're All Gonna Go
Everybody's Praying And Everybody's Saying
But When Come Time To Do
Everybody's Laying

Just Talking About Don't Worry
They Say Don't Worry
They Say Don't Worry
They Say Don't Worry

Sisters, Brothers And The Whitie
Blacks And The Crackers
Stone Stone Junkie
Police And Their Backers
They're All Political Actors

Smoke, The Pill And The Dope,
Educated Fools From Uneducated Schools,
Pimping People Is The Rule
Polluted Water In The Pool

And Everybody's Saying Don't Worry
They Say Don't Worry
They Say Don't Worry
They Say Don't Worry

But They Don't Know
There Can Be No Show
If There's A Hell Below
We're All Gonna Go

Lord What We Gonna Do
If Everything I Say Is True
This Ain't No Way It Ought To Be
1f Only All The Mass Could See

But Everybody Keeps Saying Don't Worry
1970 Curtom Publishing (Bmi)
Original Americsn Recordings By Buddah-Records

We The People

We The People
Who Are Darker Than Blue
We People Who Are Darker Than Blue
Are We Gonna Stand Around This Town
And Let What Others Say Come True

We're Just Good For Nothing They All Figure
A Boyish Grown Up Shiftless Jigger
Now We Can't Hardly Stand For That
Or Is That Really Where It's At

We People Who Are Darker Than Blue
This Ain't No Time For Segregating
I'm Talking Bout Brown And Yellow Too
High Yellow Gal Can't You Tell
You're Just The Surface Of Our Dark Deep Well
If Your Mind Could Really See
You'd Know Your Color Same As Me

Pardon Me Brother As You Stand In Your Glory
I Know You Won't Mind If I Tell The Whole Story

Get Yourself Together
Learn To Know Your Sign
Shall We Commit Our Genocide
Before We Check Out Our Mind

I Know We've All Got Problems That's Why I'm Here To Say
Keep Peace With Me And I With You
Let Me Love In My Own Way

Now I Know We Have Great Respect For The Sister, And Mother
It's Even Better Yet
But There's The Joker In The Street
Loving One Brother And Killing The Other
When The Time Comes And We Are Really Free
There'll Be No brothers Left You See

We People Who Are Darker Than Blue
Don't Let Us Hang Around This Town
And Let What Others Say Come True
Were Just Good For Nothing They All Figure
A Boyish Grown Up Shiftless Jigger
Now We Can't Hardly Stand For That
Or Is That Really Where It's At

Pardon Me Brother, I Know We've Come A Long Long Way
Let Us Stop Being So Satisfied
For Tomorrow Can Be An Even Brighter Day

1970 Curtom Publishing (Bmi)

Stone Junkie

Stone Junkie, Stone Stone Junkie
Stone Junkie, Stone Stone Junkie
Stone Junkie, Stone Stone Junkie
Stone Junkie, Stone Stone Junkie

Times Have Now Arrived In This Natlon
There's Now A People With A Different
Relation. Black, And White, Yellow,
Red And Blue; All In The Same Bag We

Know It's True. They're Just Stone Junkies
Stone Stone Junkies, Stone Junkies, Stone, Stone Junkies.

Don't Let Your Mind Become Offended Miss
Lady Cause You Ain't No Better Than Our Typical Sadie. You Just Got Money You Can Spend Out At Will
But When Comes Aches And Pains You Still Use The Pill

I Don't Mean Nothin, Stone Junkie, Stone Stone Junkie
Mean Nothin, Stone Junkie, Stone Stone Junkie
Mean Nothin, Stone Junkie, Stone Stone Junkie
Mean Nothin, Stone Junkie, Stone Stone Junkie
Mean Nothin. Stone Junkie, Stone Stone Junkie
Mean Nothin, S1one Junkie, Stone Stone Junkie
Mean Nothin, Stone Junkie, Stone Stone Junkie

I Know Everybody Whose Heart Is Still Thumping
Thing. Now That Might Sound Funky And I Don't Mean To Mislead
So You Can Retract The Thought Is Drinkinq, Shooting, Snoating. Smoking On Something
Of You On Drugs Or On Weed. That Ain't My Business You Know What You Do.
I'm Just Singing For The Majority Of You
Should I Say Mister, Stone Junkie

Stone Stone Junkie
Stone Stone Junkie

1971 Curtom Publishing (BMI)
All selections written and produced by Curtis Mayfield

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