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(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go Lyrics
Sisters, niggers, whities
Jews and the crackers
Don't worry, if there's hell below, we're all gonna 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
Jews and the crackers
Don't worry, if there's hell below, we're all gonna go
Ah
Blacks and the crackers
Police and their backers
They're all political actors
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
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
There can be no show
And if there's a hell below
We're all gonna go
And everybody's saying
But when come time to do
Everybody's laying
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
Blacks and the crackers
Police and their backers
They're all political actors
Educated fools
From uneducated schools
Pimping people is the rule
Polluted water in the pool
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
There can be no show
And if there's a hell below
We're all gonna go
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
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
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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.
The key word being "If" and there ain't so chill.
The key word being "If" and there ain't so chill.
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).
@JoeRose11 I concur wholeheartedly. I was a teen when I first heard this, and immediately purchased the album. As with Marvin Gaye’s, “What’s Going On”, this song was before it’s time. It applies then as well as to now. Timeless insight into so-called societal norms. The more things change the more they stay the same…
@JoeRose11 I concur wholeheartedly. I was a teen when I first heard this, and immediately purchased the album. As with Marvin Gaye’s, “What’s Going On”, this song was before it’s time. It applies then as well as to now. Timeless insight into so-called societal norms. The more things change the more they stay the same…