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MELVIN VAN PEEBLES
8. A Birth Certificate Aint Nothing But a Death Warrant Anyway (Melvin Van Peebles)
Melvin Van Peebles (voc), band incl. Arthur Jenkins (keys), Harold Wheeler (keys/arr/cond), Bob Mann, George Davis, Jerry Friedman (g), Bob Babbitt (b), Andrew Smith (d), Leopoldo Fleming, Warren Smith (perc), Barbara Massey, Rhetta Hughes, Tasha Thomas (backing voc)
Soundtek Studios, New York, NY
von: What the …. You Mean I Can’t Sing?! (Atlantic, 1973; CD: WEA, 2014)
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A Birth Certificate Aint Nothing But a Death Warrant Anyway
Hmmm …
Yes, sir! Yes, sir, boss!
Hmmm … hmmm … hmmm …
No, sir! No, sir, boss!
Hmmm … hmmm …
You can be a slave from the cradle to the grave
And the man who loved you
You can be a slave from the cradle to the grave
And the man who let you, you
You ain’t proved you to get the revolution
And You dig dig it
Answer me this, brother
Tell me this, sister
Where you think you’re goin’?
Get up and choose
As might as well and what you got to lose?
A birth certificate ain’t nothing
but a death warrant anyway
You gotta (Get it, get it, get it…)
Go out (Get it, get it, get it…)
You oughta (Get it, get it, get it…)
You gotta (Get it, get it, get it…)
Hmmm … (Y’all got it!)
A birth certificate ain’t nothing
but a death warrant anyway
You’re feelin’ pretty gettin’ beaten that way
Get snippin’, you’d better listen to what I say
‘Cause one thing certain I can find the cure
Ain’t nothin’ gon’ stand in the memory this way
You think your life fine high above there
Don’t be the welfare, it won’t hurt
Yeah, the man gonna try to do the grief
But you ain’t gonna just smack your feet
Hear me, hear me
~ Melvin Van Peebles
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