CURTIS MAYFIELD: (DON'T WORRY) IF THERE'S A HELL BELOW WE'RE ALL GOING TO GO

ED Noor: Curtis Mayfield said it well. And notice how he opens the song. When I went shopping for the lyrics, 2/3 of the sites omitted the offensive “Niggers” as if the listeners don’t have ears. It reminds me of that great line, “Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?”

Personally, I am a little more optimistic than Mr. Mayfield, but it is a cool song nonetheless. Do you think he could get away with that opening today? Probably.Personally I have no problem with that. But, if the occasions arose, (highly unlikely), I would like to be accorded the same privilege without being lynched.

(DON'T WORRY) IF THERE'S A HELL BELOW WE'RE ALL GOING TO GO

[spoken:]
Sisters, niggers, whities, jews, crackers!
Don't worry, if there's hell below, we're all gotta go!
Aaaaaaah!

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