1-800-new-funk

Performed by and nona gaye
Composed by
Love sign {fade in}
Love sign (get up)
Love sign (get up)

Pop, pop, pop go the pistol
Bang, bang, bang go the gun (get up)

Chorus:
If u're sick of evil knocking on your door
Throw up the love sign once and 4 ever more (2 signs of the times)
If u'd rather make love and have a little fun
Throw up the love sign everybody and not the gun (time is passing, passing is time)

In a chariot of red and gold
The cool, fuzzy voice said "come save your soul"
Before the fear of rejection reared its head
He stood before the masses and calmly said

Chorus

In the day of where and why we all belong
Don't nobody wanna hear a silly love song
And if they did then we would sing it on the news
While u're aiming your gun at me and i'm aiming back at u

Chorus

Pop, pop, pop go the pistol
Bang, bang, bang go the gun (get up)
Pop, pop, pop go the pistol
Bang, bang, bang go the gun (get up)

If u only had one year left 2 live (get up)
What good is the time u spend if u got no love 2 give? (get up)
Let's all get up off the front (get up off the front) and find a cause 2 back (cause 2 back)
Then we could teach the babies replications of the act, of the act

If u're sick of evil knocking on your door
(sick of evil knockin', yeah)
Throw up the love sign once and 4ever more (2 signs of the times)
(then ev..everybody love)
If u'd rather make love and have a little fun
(we can have a little fun)
Throw up the love sign everybody and not the gun (time is passing, passing is time)
(everybody, oh yeah)

If u're sick of evil knocking on your door
(oh yeah)
Throw up the love sign once and 4ever more (2 signs of the times)
If u'd rather make love and have a little fun
(make a little love now)
Throw up the love sign everybody and not the gun
(we can make love instead of guns, oh) (time is passing, passing is time)

Pop, pop, pop go the pistol
Bang, bang, bang go the gun (x4)

Show us the love sign, we want the love sign (get up)
Show us the love sign (get up)
Show us the love sign (2 signs of the times), we want the love sign (get up)
Show us (2 signs of the times) the love sign (get up)

Love sign
(pop, pop, pop go the pistol)
(bang, bang, bang go the gun)
We want the love sign
Love sign
(pop, pop, pop go the pistol)
(bang, bang, bang go the gun)
Love sign
(pop, pop, pop go the pistol)
(bang, bang, bang go the gun)
We want the love sign
Love sign
(pop, pop, pop go the pistol)
(bang, bang, bang go the gun) {repeat to fade}

Performed by minneapolis
Composed by sonny t.
M p l(l) s
I used 2 play the gig at archie's bunker
Then i up and joined the jeffersons
I was in a band with lenny kravitz's mama (your mother)
Friday night was good every now and then
Now i'm old and doin' so much better (so much better)
Sellin' the wax out the back o' my subaru
Now i cut this groove with a group called minneapolis (minneapolis)
In this here groove, they know just what 2 do, do

Chorus:
Mpls funkin' house from east 2 west
Mpls funkin' (shut up)
Mpls - clinton listen, a on test
Mpls funkin' (shut up)
(funkin')

Other people's parties they be fightin'
They're pullin' the guns and actin' like a fool
The way i see it, the more good they be writin'
Makin' u wish that u stayed in a funky school (school)
First class - guitar 101, james brown - second hour
Horn part, u ain't got none unless u got tower of power
Bootsy will teach u all u need 2 know about the booty bass (y'all are crazy)
And if u can't play 7, 7 on the drums, u better not show your face (u ain't funky)

Chorus

Funkin'
Nobody buy my joint, it's cool cuz i got one (hell yeah)
All the others cut 4 radio and cheat the fan
Good time - take us 2 the stage and watch us move your big butt
Cuz everybody, everybody's gettin' funky in this band

Who's in the band guys?
Sgt. rock (sonny t, yeah, that's..that's me) (m) (p)
Sittin' in from st. paul (we're the s-t-e-e-l-e-s) (l) (s)
Cutie pie on vocals (jam) (m)
And by way of queens (master t) (p) (l) (s)
Hey, u ain't supposed 2 be on this record

Mpls funkin' house from east 2 west
Mpls funkin' (shut up)
Mpls - clinton listen, a on test
Mpls funkin'
We just keep funkin'
We just keep funkin'
Get funky

Party people steady pumpin'
Party people steady pumpin'

Performed by mavis staples
Composed by prince
U will be moved when the baby lets out his very first cry
U will be moved when u think of how hard he'll have 2 try
He'll grow up on an empty stomach, but he'll try his best 2 listen
2 the teacher readin' from a schoolbook with half the pages missin'
Chorus:
Surely when the rain comes, u will be moved
La da da da da
See the video

U will be moved, and u will be when the baby makes all the grades
U will be moved, and u will be when they still don't hire him anyway
Moved by a system without one single guarantee
That an education is the answer and love will set us free

Chorus

Oh, u will be moved when the rain comes, oh yes, u will be moved
When the streets overflow with angry souls, that's when u see the truth
When the pain that u've inflicted comes back on your door 2 roost (back on your door 2 roost)
That's when u'll see the future (future), but u won't see u

Chorus

U will be moved when the whip comes down on the back of one of your own
U will be moved when u look 4 compassion but u find u're all alone
Moved, and u will be when u are, that's when u'll know
That the bread u share is better than the blood that your deeds have caused 2 flow
(that the bread is better than the blood)

Chorus

Hey, u will be moved when the rain comes, oh yes, u will be moved
When the streets all flow with angry souls, that's when u'll see the truth
When the pain that u've inflicted comes back on your door 2 roost (back on your door 2 roost)
That's when u'll see the future (future), but u won't see u

I said surely when the rain comes, u will be moved
La da da da da (la da da da da)
See the video

Hey, surely, surely, surely (when the rain comes)
Surely y'all
Ow, la da da da da

Yeah
2gether
Your boy got popped in a driveby yesterday
He'll be lucky if he makes it through the night is what the doctors say
U can take revenge or u can be the one 2 break the chain
U look up in the sky 4 an answer and it starts 2 rain

Chorus:
What are we (what are we) if we're not 2gether? (if we're not 2gether)
How do we (how do we) make a life that's better? (yeah)
Cuz when we (cuz when we) be killin' one another (take each other out)
How do we (huh, how) call each other brother? (mmm, check it)
U tell me

What's the chance of a brother gettin' off the block?
What's the chance, not a damn if all he wanna do is sell chicken wings and the rock
(chicken wing and the rock)
U can blame the system, u can be the one 2 even the score, huh
Yeah, huh, u look up in the sky 4 an answer and it starts 2 pour
Drop it, huh

What are we (what are we) if we're not 2gether? (if we're not 2gether)
How do we (how do we) make a life that's better? (yeah)
Cuz when we (cuz when we) be killin' one another (take each other out)
How do we (huh, how) call each other brother?
U tell me (tell'em)

Why is slangin' them thangs, coppin' a stroll, flashin' a sign
Key topics on a young black mind?
Cuz it's the picture that we give'em and they illustrate
Black on black genocide has started 2 escalate
Every brother ain't a brother cuz o' color, this is true
But i can still say 2 my brother "much love boo"
Please lord, give me the strength and make it quick
Cuz my people won't take another nightstick, huh

What are we (what are we) if we're not 2gether? (if we're not 2gether)
How do we (and how do we) make a life that's better? (yeah)
Cuz when we (cuz when we) be killin' one another (take each other out)
How do we (how do we) (i don't know) call each other brother?
U tell me

What are we if we're not 2gether? (the new power generation)
How do we make a life that's better? (straight up 4 '93)
Cuz when we (come on) (killin' one another) be killin' one another
(come on, come on)
(how do we) how do we call each other brother?
U tell me (yeah)

Yo, it's simple
From the old 2 the young
2 uplift we must give the gift
Gift of knowledge, that is
Teach our young
That all in life ain't fun
And 2 make a life that's better
My people must stick 2gether
The choice is yours

Chorus

What are we (what are we) if we're not 2gether? (if we're not 2gether)
How do we (how do we) make a life that's better? (2gether)
Cuz when we (cuz when we) be killin' one another (be killin' one another)
How do we (how do we) call each other brother?
U tell me

2gether {x2}

Performed by nona gaye
Composed by b. womack, l. womack and d. carter
Oh oh oh (a woman's gotta have it)
(a woman's gotta have it)
Do the things that keep a smile on her face
Say the words that make her feel better every day
U betcha better keep on your p's and q's
If u don't, your woman u could easily lose

Oh, i had love, a true love and i lost it
And no one seems 2 understand about the pain that it cost me
A woman's gotta have it, i believe
She's got 2 know that she's needed around
When u kiss her, u got 2 make her feel it
She wants 2 know that she's not walking on shaky ground
When u miss her, u got 2 be 4-realin'
Make her know that she's needed around

Don't take 4 granted the smile upon her face
Check a little bit closer, u might find a tear trace
Maybe the little girl never said a mufflin' word
But she's got 2 know that her voice is heard

Oh, i had love, a true love and i lost it
And no one seems 2 understand about the pain that it cost me
A woman's gotta have it, i believe that i should know
She's got 2 know that she's needed around
When u kiss her, u got 2 make her feel it
She wants 2 know that she's not walking on shaky ground
When u miss her, u got 2 be 4-realin'
Make her know that she's needed around

Oh, i had love, a true love and i lost it
Now i'm sufferin' all this pain that the true love cost me
A woman's gotta have it, i believe that i should know
She's got 2 know that she's needed around
When u kiss her, u got 2 make her feel it
She wants 2 know that she's not walking on shaky ground
When u miss her, u got 2 be 4-realin'
Make her know that she's needed around

A woman's gotta have it (a woman's gotta have it) {repeat to fade}