The Staple Singers was a group and not just Pops and the two chicks singing...lol
But this song, when performed, was unbelievable...
["Respect Yourself" The Stax Live version]
What I loved about the presentation of this song and it's images that accompanied the performance was the TIME and the memories....
So may have the CD or the DVD but NOTHING compared to the feeling of being in a theater as this Move and this scene played in a smoke filled theater...watching the concert of a lifetime.
Respect Yourself...
If you disrespect anybody that you run in to
How in the world do you think anybody's s'posed to respect you
If you don't give a heck 'bout the man with the bible in his hand
Just get out the way, and let the gentleman do his thing
You the kind of gentleman that want everything your way
Take the sheet off your face, boy, it's a brand new day
Respect yourself, respect yourself
If you don't respect yourself
Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot, na na na na
Respect yourself, respect yourself
If you're walking 'round think'n that the world owes you something cause
You're here you goin' out the world backwards like you did when you
Put your hand on your mouth when you cough, that'll help the solution
Oh, you cuss around women and you don't even know their names and you
Dumb enough to think that'll make you a big ol man
...
Yall aint ready...lol
Because many of us in that movie theater on the East coast wasn't ready to see black folks do this either...
[THIS IS HOW IT GOT STARTED] and then a party started. And then a riot almost broke out. And this was Watts Stax... The Black folks Woodstock!
And who said that black folks didn't like funky chicken?
...
respect
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