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• 1 2016-09-11T09:20:27-07:00 James Brown's funk anthems: Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud (1968) and People, Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul (1973) 21 plain 2019-03-25T17:11:20-07:00 Say It Loud--I'm Black and I'm Proud co-written by Alfred Ellis and performed with 30 youngsters from Compton and Watts in Los Angeles. Released August 1968.
  
  
  Uh, with your bad self
  Say it louder (I'm black and I'm proud)
  Say it louder (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
  I say we won't quit moving
  Til we get what we deserve
  We've been buked and we've been scorned
  We've been treated bad, talked about
  As just 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
  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 demands a chance
  To do things for ourselves
  We're tired of beating our heads against the wall
  And working for someone else
  
  
  
  People, Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul, released 1973; remixed for the Motherlode album, 1988.
  
  
  Raise up, get yourself together
  And drive that funky soul
  Get up, get yourself together
  And drive your funky soul
  They're doing it down in Nassau
  Drive that funky soul
  They're doing it by the beach, hah
  Driving that funky soul
  New York, get yourself together
  And drive your funky soul
  Let your body pop
  And let your feelings flow
  Raise up, get yourself together
  And drive that funky soul
  When I say Sagittarius
  Drive that funky soul
  When I say Pisces, holler
  And drive your funky soul
  When I say Gemini, heh
  When I say Capricorn, WOAH!
  Drive your funky soul
  When I say Scorpio, Virgo
  If I say Cancer
  Can you drive that funky soul?
  Raise up, get yourself together
  And drive your funky soul
  Slaughter, Get on up, get yourself together
  Drive that funky soul
  Leo, get yourself together
  And drive your funky soul
  Aquarius, get yourself together
  And drive that funky soul
  Get up, get yourself together
  And drive your funky soul Fred, get yourself together
  And drive that funky soul
  Drivin' drivin, I need some money
  Do you need some money?
  Drive your funky soul
  The cats on the corner
  Drive that funky soul
  The girl that's standing out there
  Drive that
  Raise up, get yourself together
  And drive that funky soul
  Fred, hit it!
  Hit it!
  (solo)
  In Nassau and Germany, they're driving that funky soul
  In Georgia, they're driving that funky soul
  They're driving that funky soul in Washington and Baltimore
  Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago . . .