Sisters, niggers, whities
Jews and the crackers
Don't worry, if there's hell below, we're all gotta go
Ah

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 the 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 whities
Blacks and the crackers
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 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
And if there's a hell below
We're all gonna go

Lord, what we gonna do
Tell me what we gonna do
If everything I say is true?
This ain't no way it ought to be
If only all the mass could see

But they keep talkin' 'bout don't worry
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
They say don't worry


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(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go Lyrics as written by Curtis Mayfield

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    General Comment

    Brilliant track, skin tight pumping groove, superb bassline, topical, thoughtful lyrics delivered with flawless falsetto tones - this points straight on to the "Superfly" music. Classic Curtis.

    tinderboxon June 24, 2008   Link
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    General Comment

    It's about collective responsibility for society's problems and about empty words and promises. And how it goes all the way from the top (Nixon) to the bottom (educated fools from uneducated schools). If we don't all do something to make a change, we're headed straight to hell (if it even exists).

    JoeRose11on December 29, 2018   Link

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