Doing It to Death

Album: Doing It to Death (1973)
Charted: 22
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    How you feeling, brother
    (Feeling good)
    You feel good

    How you feel, man
    (I feel alright)
    I won't call your name
    I don't want no people
    To know you're in here

    How you feeling, brother
    Hey, jam, sure getting down
    Lookie here, ha

    We're gonna have a
    Funky good time
    We're gonna have a
    Funky good time
    We're gonna have a
    Funky good time
    We're gonna have a
    Funky good time

    Now, take em up, Fred
    We gotta take you higher
    All right, gonna do it again
    You wanna do it again
    We gotta take you higher

    Brother (yeah)
    Now I want everybody to
    Let Fred blow about two chords
    (Mumbling) alright
    I wanna get that fella
    With the little horn over there

    Fred, can you take us higher
    (Yeah) take us higher
    Fred, Fred, Fred

    You know what
    When I hear a groove like this
    It say I got to take you higher
    Yeah, baby, yeah, yeah
    Like way up wonder

    Lookie here
    Someone got a groove like this
    You know, you know, know
    I need the grit, got the grit
    Wanna eat, got to get
    Need to get, go to grit

    Now, Fred, you know
    Hey, Fred Thomas, brother
    I'm getting ready to
    Wave y'all in

    Know what, I feel so down
    I need to get down
    In order for me to get down
    I got to get in deep

    In order for me to get down
    I got to get in deep
    Need to get in deep
    Down deep, down deep

    Get on down
    You like these
    Think about making the big M

    Lookie here, lookie there
    You see over there
    You better sing one word for us
    What we gotta do

    We gotta have a
    Funky good time, oh, yeah
    We gotta have a
    Funky good time, oh, yeah
    I didn't know you
    Were singing, Fred

    We gotta have a
    Funky good time
    We gotta have a
    Funky good time
    We gotta take you higher

    Wait a minute, now
    Who you say that was over there
    Familiar looking cat
    I know I seen him somewhere

    Is that Maceo
    He's doing everything over there
    Maceo, is it who
    Maceo, you know like
    Maceo, won't you blow
    Oh, yeah, Maceo Writer/s: JAMES BROWN
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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