Lyrics Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud - Pt. 1 - James Brown

Uh!

Watch your bad self

Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud)

Look a-here

Some people say we got a lot of malice

Some say it's a lotta nerve

But I say we won't quit movin'

Until we get what we deserve

We've been 'buked, and we've been scorned

We've been treated bad, talked about as sure as you're born

But just as sure as it take two eyes to make a pair, huh!

Brother, we can't quit until we get our share

Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud)

One more time, say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud), huh

I've worked on jobs with my feet and my hands

But all the work I did was for the other man

And now we demand a chance to do things for ourselves

We tired of beatin' our head against the wall

And workin' for someone else

Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud)

Ooh-wee, you're killin' me

Alright, huh, you're out of sight

All night, so tough, you're tough enough

Ooh-wee, uh, you're killin' me

Oh, say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud)

Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud)

Now, we demand a chance to do things for ourselves

We're tired of beatin' our heads against the wall

And workin' for someone else

Look a-here, there's one thing more I got to say right here

Now, now we're people, we're like the birds and the bees

We'd rather die on our feet than keep livin' on our knees

Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud), huh!

Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud), Lordy, Lordy, Lordy

Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud)

Oh!

Uh! Alright now, Lord

You know we can do the boogaloo

Now, we can say we do the funky part

Writer(s): James Brown, Mohandas Dewese

Album Star Time

date of release

07-05-1991

1 Make It Funky - Pt. 1
2 I've Got Money
3 Grits
4 Intro/ It's a New Day (So Let a Man Come In and Do the Popcorn) [Live At The Apollo Theater/1971]
5 Mother Popcorn
6 I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Myself)
7 Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Stereo Mix)
8 It's Too Funky In Here - Single Version
9 I Got Ants In My Pants - Pt.1
10 There It Is - Pt. 1
11 Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)
12 I'm A Greedy Man
13 Prisoner Of Love
14 Lost Someone
15 The Payback
16 Get On the Good Foot
17 I Got A Bag Of My Own
18 Public Enemy #1 - Pt. 1
19 Funky President (People It's Bad) [Single Version]
20 Funky Drummer (Pt. 1 & 2 / Edit)
21 My Thang - Single Version
22 Cold Sweat - 1967 Version
23 I Got The Feelin' - Single Version
24 I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me), Pt. 1
25 Out Of Sight - Single Version
26 Papa Don't Take No Mess (Part 1) - Single Version
27 Don't Be a Dropout
28 Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, Pt. 1 & 2
29 Doing It to Death
30 Get Up I Feel Like Being Like A Sex Machine (Pt. 1 & 2 (Promo Version))
31 Get Up Offa That Thing / Release The Pressure
32 Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
33 Super Bad
34 Unity, Part 1
35 Soul Power (Parts 1 & 2)
36 Medley: Brother Rapp/Ain't It Funky Now
37 Body Heat, Part 1
38 Money Won't Change You
39 Bring It Up (Hipsters Avenue)
40 I Don't Mind (Live 1962)
41 Devil's Den
42 Rapp Payback (Where Iz Moses)
43 Night Train - Single Version
44 I Got You (I Feel Good)
45 Stoned To The Bone
46 Out Of The Blue - Alternate Take
47 It's A Man's World - 1991 Version
48 King Heroin - Single Version
49 It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World (Mono)
50 Ain't That a Groove
51 Let Yourself Go (1991 Star Time Version)
52 Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud - Pt. 1
53 Get It Together (Pt.1 & 2)
54 Licking Stick - Licking Stick
55 Maybe The Last Time
56 Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)
57 I Got You (I Feel Good)
58 There Was A Time - Live At Dallas Memorial Auditorium, 1968
59 Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing
60 Why Do You Do Me
61 Try Me (Single Version) (Mono)
62 Bewildered
63 Good Good Lovin' - Single Version
64 I'll Go Crazy - Single Version
65 I Know It's True
66 Think - Single Version
67 Baby, You're Right (Alternate Take)

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