Текст песни Intro to Three Miles Down (Live 1983) - Gil Scott-Heron

One thing I like about
Coming out on the stage by yourself
Is that, like, no matter what you said
You was gonna do backstage
Once you get out here
You can go for it
'Cause can't nobody stop you
You see so it's going now
So, I didn't say I was gonna do this one
When I was back there
But I noted there's some vocalists out there
And I would like to have y'all
Help me do a song if you could
Well, look, you can contribute if you want to
Otherwise just back off, alright?
This song here is about coal miners
And I feel like coal miners
Are very important people, of course
Because they go and get the coal
But they don't get a whole lot of respect
Because people don't think about it
Don't think about what they have to go through
In order to do this
I feel as if the coal miners would get more respect
If everybody had to go
And get their own coal
You see what keeps people
From understanding what it is
Is they don't have to do it
So they say, to hell with it
I don't, you know, I don't care
But we'd like to take you into a song
About some of the ideas
That go behind coal mining
Go behind working for it
The song is called Three Miles Down
And I have a song part
That I want y'all to sing
I know it's not a very big part
But remember you're just starting
So if you do this
If you do this part right
Maybe there'll be other parts later
But you gotta start somewhere, right?
You got to crawl before you can walk
Ok, now this is gonna be your part, right?
Ok
Tutudutudu tututudutu
Tutudutudu tututudutu
Oh hell, that's fantastic
Ain't no problem, ain't no problem there
Ok so now
This four tudutudutus, right before
Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you
I'm gonna sign the lead
Because I know the words, I mean
You know, I could do the tudutudutu
I mean I could do that
But like, I'm gonna sing the lead
And when we get to the part that says
Working in a graveyard three miles down
That's when you come back in, right?
Oh, It works out, it works out
I won't worry, I won't worry about it
I won't worry about it
We got it, we got it, we got it, we got it, go
We got some vocalist
We got some hand clappers
We rollin'
I got some of this stuff over here
There's another bottle there too
Ok so on four
Y'all remember where four is, right?
We hear it right between three and five
And when I get to four
That's when I want y'all to come in
With your part, right?
Ok so everybody ready?
Well, just listen to the one next to you
Now this singing is your part also
So if you don't have it right off
Don't sing their part
But get your part from them, ok?
This is going to be on four now
One, two, one, two, three, four
Tutudutudu tututudutu
Tutudutudu tututudutu
Tutudutudu tututudutu
One more
Tutudutudu tututudutu
Here come the mine cars
Oh, forgive me now that was four
So you got to get some organization
See, you gonna do four
And then I'm gonna sing the lyrics
You'll be right back
We can't have no conflict in the pause
Alright that just was a good warmer
You guys are bright now, right?
Ok, alright
It's alright, it's alright
Ok, so don't fool it now
We're gonna get started
You're gonna do it four times
And the you go softer
One, two
I love this part
This is the part I know best