| Sometimes, the going | 
| Gets a little bit tough now | 
| (Oh, baby, don’t you weep) | 
| When the times get hard | 
| And the friends get few now | 
| (Oh, baby, don’t you weep) | 
| No one to turn to and | 
| Nothing to do now | 
| (Oh, baby, don’t you weep) | 
| You’re screaming your heart out | 
| (Oh, baby, don’t you weep) | 
| Til your back and is | 
| Soaking wet now | 
| (Oh, baby, don’t you weep) | 
| You’re still looking for mercy | 
| (Oh, baby, don’t you weep) | 
| And still, you can’t forget now | 
| Screaming your heart out | 
| Your back gets soaking wet | 
| You know that you used to love him | 
| And still, you can’t forget | 
| You know sometimes it’s hard | 
| Nowhere to go | 
| No one to love | 
| Tried everything you know | 
| Haaa, baby | 
| (Oh, baby, don’t you weep) | 
| And, ahhh, baby | 
| (Oh, baby, don’t you weep) | 
| And, ahhh, baby | 
| (Oh, baby, don’t you weep) | 
| I want you to play | 
| I want you to play a little song | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| You know, a friend of mine | 
| Told me one time | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| I think it was back in 1959 | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| He said, darling, you send me | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| He said, if you call me | 
| I’ll come running back to you | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| And another friend of mine told me | 
| He said, if you need me, call me | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| You see, I got a lot of | 
| Friends in my business | 
| And another friend of mine | 
| He told me | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| You better stop dogging | 
| Me around, now | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| And a recent friend | 
| Of mine, he came up | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| And you know what he said | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| It’s too late | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| Another friend of mine in a group | 
| I’m talking bout Bobby boy, now | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| He said a young man | 
| Sings his heart out | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| He walked up, he said, James | 
| I had so much trials and tribulations | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| But I found out now | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| And you see, another friend | 
| Of mine, he told me | 
| He called me Bishop | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| He said, James | 
| You was born to lose | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| I wouldn’t take that for an answer | 
| I went on down the street | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| I said to myself | 
| I said, James Brown | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| Please, please, please, please | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| Come along, someone now | 
| Aaaah, baby | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| Aaaah, baby | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| I’m gonna call a friend | 
| Of mine in a band now | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| I want him to come up | 
| And testify now | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| I want you to blow | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| I want you to blow for the people | 
| Who need someone to love now | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| I want you to blow for the people | 
| Who don’t have no one to love | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| I want you to blow for somebody | 
| That I lost long time ago | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| I want him to blow better than | 
| On anybody’s record now | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| I want you to blow for yourself one time | 
| (Do doop doopty doop) | 
| Aaaah, baby | 
| (Oh, baby, don’t you weep) | 
| Aaaah, baby | 
| (Oh, baby, don’t you weep) | 
| Aaaah, baby | 
| (Oh, baby, don’t you weep) | 
| I think I’m gonna scream | 
| A little louder and maybe | 
| You’ll come on home now | 
| Ow, oh, baby | 
| (Oh, baby, don’t you weep) | 
| Aaaah, baby | 
| (Oh, baby, don’t you weep) | 
| Aaaah, baby |