If I were a rich man
With a million or two
I’d live in a penthouse
In a room with a view
And if I were handsome (it could happen)
Those dreams do come true
I wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have you
Wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have
Wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have
Wouldn’t have nothin’ 

For years I have envied
Your grace and your charm.
Everyone loves you
You know?
Yes I know I know I know.
But I must admit it.
Big guy you always come through.
I wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have you.

You and me together
That’s how it always should be.
One without the other
Don’t mean nothing to me.
Nothing to me

Yes I wouldn’t be nothin’
If I didn’t have you to serve.
I’m just a punky little eyeball
And a funky optic nerve.

Hey I never told you this but
Sometimes I get a little blue.
But I wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have you
Let’s dance!

I wouldn’t be nothin’ if I didn’t have you
I wouldn’t know where to go
Wouldn’t know what to do
I don’t have to say it
‘Cause we both know it’s true
I wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have
I wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have
I wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have

Wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have
You

[One more time]

If I were a rich man
With a billion or two
I’d live in a penthouse
In a room with a view
And if I were handsome (it could happen)
Those dreams do come true
I wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have you
Wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have
Wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have
Wouldn’t have nothin’ 

For years I have envied
Your grace and your charm.
Everyone loves you
You know?
Yes I know I know I know.
But I must admit it.
Big guy you always come through.
I wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have you.

You and me together
That’s how it always should be.
One without the other
Don’t mean nothing to me.
Nothing to me

Yes I wouldn’t be nothin’
If I didn’t have you to serve.
I’m just a punky little eyeball
With an ugly little optic nerve.

Hey I never told you this but
Sometimes I get a little blue.
But I wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have you
Dance with me!

I wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have you
I wouldn’t know where to go
I wouldn’t know what to do
I don’t have to say it
‘Cause we both know it’s true
I wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have
I wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have
I wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have you

Wouldn’t have nothin’ if I didn’t have you

Into a life of pain came something beautiful
Someone who loved me much as I love her
There have been trials and tribulations, and not just a few
But we made it through
And now the time’s at hand

We’re gonna get married
And have everything
Birdies sing
The bells will ring
Bells of every denomination ringing

We’re gonna get married
Take her hand in mine
We’ll be lookin’ fine
In the sweet sunshine

I hear the people are talkin’
All over town
As we go walking by
Yes, they do

But I don’t mind their talkin’
It’s all right
‘Cause I got my baby to rock me and hold me tight

We’re gonna get married
We’re gonna get married
We’re gonna get married
Wait and see

What a grand occasion it’s gonna be
All those who love us will be there
One great big happy family, yes

We’re gonna get married
We’re gonna get married
We’re gonna get married
You and me

We’re gonna get married
We’re gonna get married
We’re gonna get married
Wait and see

I don’t care about money
I don’t care about fame
Don’t care if I win or lose
To me it’s all the same

But I care so much for you, baby
That before these people go
I wanna tell them how I feel
‘Cause I want the world to know

I’m crazy ’bout my baby
Crazy ’bout my baby
Crazy ’bout my baby and my baby’s crazy ’bout me

I’m crazy ’bout my baby
Crazy ’bout my baby
Crazy ’bout my baby and my baby’s crazy ’bout me

I’ve been through some trouble for ya
I been through some pain
Sold some people out, made them cry
But I wanted you so badly that I didn’t know what to do
Now, I’m so glad I get to spend my whole life lovin’ you

I’m crazy ’bout my baby
Crazy ’bout my baby
Crazy ’bout my baby and my baby’s crazy ’bout me

Crazy ’bout you, baby
Crazy ’bout you, baby
Crazy ’bout you, baby and I know you’re crazy ’bout me

Who’s gonna take my love away? (Nobody)
Who’s gonna take my love?
Who’s gonna take my love away? (Nobody)
Who’s gonna take my love?
Who’s gonna take my love away? (Nobody)

Crazy ’bout my baby
Crazy ’bout my baby
Crazy ’bout my baby and my baby’s crazy ’bout me

Crazy ’bout my baby
Crazy ’bout my baby
Crazy ’bout my baby and my baby’s crazy ’bout me

I’m crazy ’bout my baby and my baby’s crazy ’bout me

You hear a voice come calling in the wilderness
That the blind can see and that the poor possess
Hear the voice come calling in the wilderness
That the blind can see and that the poor possess
Yeah, now

See the fire burn and hear the wind attest
That the weak are strong and the weary rest
See the fire burn, hear the wind attest
That the weak are strong, the weary rest
Yeah

Hear the voice come calling in the wilderness
The blind can see and that the poor possess
Yeah the voice come calling in the wilderness
That the blind can see and that the poor possess

Oh yeah, now

See the fire burn and hear the wind attest
That the weak are strong and the weary rest
The voice come calling in the wilderness
That the blind can see and that the poor possess
A voice come calling in the wilderness
That the blind can see and that the poor possess

(Chorus)
And if you feel like dancing
Dance
And if you feel like falling
Fall
‘Cause It will be alright
Yeah now
Yeah now

If you’re gonna put your fist
Right though the mirror
Because all your pretty dresses feel too tight
A green forest rises out of desert sand
And sparks dance electric in your hands

If you turn your head you will hear music
Music everywhere nothing but music
If you turn your head now you will hear music
Music everywhere

(Chorus)

If you’re gonna light the bonfire
Then do it
‘Cause it will be alright
Yeah now

If you’re gonna pack up
All of your belongings
No, not even leave a note behind
A red moon is rising in the evening sky
You’ll feel it daring you to fly

If you turn your head you will hear music
Music everywhere nothing but music
If you turn your head now you will hear music
Music everywhere

(Chorus)

Come on do it
And it will be all right

I was born to make you happy.
I think you’re just my style.
Everywhere I go,
Telling everyone I know,
Baby I love to see you smile.

Don’t want to take a trip to China.
Don’t want sail up the Nile.
Wouldn’t want to get too far,
From where you are,
‘Cause I love to see you smile.

Like a sink without a faucet.
Like a watch without a dial.
What would I do
If I didn’t have you.
I love to see you smile.

In the summer, in the springtime,
The winter or the fall,
The only place I wanna be
Is where I can see you smile at me.

In a world that’s full of trouble
You make it all worthwhile.
What would I do
If I didn’t have you.
I love to see you smile.
I love to see you smile.

I was born to make you happy.
I think you’re just my style.
Everywhere I go,
Telling everyone I know,
Baby I love to see you smile.

Don’t want to take a trip to China.
Don’t want sail up the Nile.
Wouldn’t want to get too far,
From where you are,
‘Cause I love to see you smile.

Like a sink without a faucet.
Like a watch without a dial.
What would I do
If I didn’t have you.
I love to see you smile.

In the summer, in the springtime,
The winter or the fall,
The only place I wanna be
Is where I can see you smile at me.

In a world that’s full of trouble
You make it all worthwhile.
What would I do
If I didn’t have you.
I love to see you smile.
I love to see you smile.

Long ago, but not so very long ago
The world was different, oh yes it was
You settled down and you built a town and made it there
And you watched it grow
It was your town

Time goes by, time brings changes, you change, too
Nothing comes that you can’t handle, so on you go
Never see it coming, the world caves in on you
On your town
Nothing you can do.

Main street isn’t main street any more
Lights don’t shine as brightly as they shone before
Tell the truth, lights don’t shine at all
In our town

Sun comes up each morning
Just like it’s always done
Get up, go to work, start the day,
Open up for business that’s never gonna come
As the world rolls by a million miles away

Main street isn’t main street any more
No one seems to need us like they did before
It’s hard to find a reason left to stay
But it’s our town
Love it anyway
Come what may
It’s our town

I was born right here, November ’43
My dad was a captain in the army
Fighting the Germans in Sicily.
My poor little momma
Didn’t know a soul in L.A.
So we went down to the Union Station and made our getaway. 

Got on the Dixie Flyer bound for New Orleans
Across the state of Texas to the land of dreams.
On the Dixie Flyer bound for New Orleans
Back to her friends and her family in the land of dreams.

Her own mother came to meet us at the station,
Her dress as black as a crow in a coal mine
She cried when her little girl got off the train.
Her brothers and her sisters drove down from Jackson, Mississippi
In a great green Hudson driven by a Gentile they knew.
Drinkin’ rye whiskey from a flask in the back seat
Tryin’ to do like the Gentiles do
Christ, they wanted to be Gentiles, too.
Who wouldn’t down there, wouldn’t you?
An American Christian, God damn!

On the Dixie Flyer bound for New Orleans
Back to her friends and her family in the land of dreams
On the Dixie Flyer bound for New Orleans
Across the state of Texas to the land of dreams
Across the state of Texas to the land of dreams.

Don’t remember much about my baby days,
But I been told
We used to live on Willow near the Garden District
Next to the Sugar Bowl
Momma used to wheel me past an ice cream wagon
One side for White and one side for Colored
I remember trash cans floatin’ down Canal Street
It rained every day one summer
Momma used to take me to Audubon Park
Show me the ways of the world
She said, “here comes a white boy, there goes a black one,
that one’s an octoroon
This little cookie here’s a macaroon, that big round thing’s
a red balloon
And the paper down here’s called the Picayune
And here’s a New Orleans tune”
In 1948 my Daddy came to the city
Told the people that they’d won the war
Maybe they’d heard it, maybe not
Probably they’d heard it and just forgot
‘Cause they built him a platform there in Jackson Square
And the people came to hear him from everywhere
They started to party and they partied some more
‘Cause New Orleans had won the war
(We knew we’d do it, we done whipped the Yankees)
Daddy said, “I’m gonna get this boy out of this place
Bound to sap his strength
People have fun here, and I think that they should
But nobody from here every come to no good
They’re gonna pickle him in brandy and tell him he’s saved
Then throw fireworks all ’round his grave”
So he took us down to the airport, and flew us back to L.A.
That was the end of my baby days
Blue blue morning, blue blue day
All your bad dreams drift away
It’s a blue blue morning, of a blue blue day
Lose those bad dreams
Those gray clouds above you, what you want them around
with you for?
You got someone to love you
Who could ask for more?
It’s a blue blue morning, of a blue blue day
All your bad dreams drift away

One September morning when I was five
My daddy said, “Son, rise from your bed.”
I thought, I must be dreaming, it’s still dark outside
He said, “Son if you fall behind you’ll never get ahead
Here’s your little brown cowboy shirt, put it on
Here’s your little brown cowboy pants, put ‘em on
Here’s your little brown shoes, can you tie them yourself?
Get into the car, we’re gone!”
We drove, it seemed like forever,
Further than I’d ever been away from home
Then my daddy stopped the car, and he turned to me
He said, “Son it’s time to make us proud of you,
It’s time to do what’s right
Gonna have to learn to work hard”
I said, “Work? What are you talking about?
You’re not gonna leave me here, are you?”
He said “Yes I am!”
And drove off into the morning light
For a while I stood there, on the sidewalk
A Roy Rogers lunch pail in my hand
Then I heard sweet children’s voices calling
And I began to understand
They said, “Four eyes! Look like you’re still sleeping!”
“Four eyes! Look like you’re dead!”
“Four eyes! Where have you been keeping yourself?”
“Look like you been whupped upside the head.”

Your eyelids are gettin’ heavy
Hard to lift
Your mind begins to wander
Things start to drift
Your arms are getting heavy
Hard to lift
You sink down a little deeper
You’re feeling wonderful 

Maybe you’re falling in love
Maybe you’re falling in love
Maybe you’re falling, falling, falling, falling in love
You stare across the harbor
At the lights along the bay
Your arms have got so heavy, now
They’re just getting in your way
Look
Now you’re walkin’ in the holy land
Yeah, that’s you there, walkin’ with the king
You ask “What have I done to deserve this?”
Why, you haven’t done a thing
Maybe you’re falling in love
Maybe you’re falling in love
Maybe you’re falling, falling, falling, falling in love

All dressed up, nowhere to go
Looks so easy but it isn’t you know
Hard to find what you’re dreamin’ of
But there’s something special about our love
Different people, different worlds
You just call me, and I’ll be there for you
We belong together you know it’s true
‘Cause there’s something special about me and you
Something special about our love
It’s all right,
Baby, it’s ok
We’re gonna make it no matter what they say
Sure as the stars shine in the sky above
There is something special about our love
People change as time goes by
Others come between
But I’ll love you ’til the day I die
‘Cause there’s something special ’bout you and me
Something special about our love

High on a cliff in Mexico
Staring down at the rocks and the sea below
I can hear the church bells ring
I can hear the choir
I remember the night she left
I drove to the station in the pouring rain
Sat all night behind my big iron desk
The oil on the water made a rainbow
At the end of this bone-white gravel road
They both lie sleeping on a feather bed
And her hair is black as the sky at night
But her eyes are gray like the moon
You can run but you can’t hide
You can run but you can’t hide
You said you love me but I know you lied
You said you love me but I know you lied

They say that people are livin’ in the street
No food in their belly, no shoes on their feet
Six black children livin’ in a burned-up room
One bare light bulb swinging
Little black kid come home from school
Put his key in the door
Mr. Rat’s on the stairway, Mr. Junkie’s lyin’ in his
own vomit on the floor
You gotta roll with the punches, little black boy
That’s what you got to do
You got to roll with the punches
Tap it baby
There’s all these boring people, you see ‘em on the TV
And they’re making up all these boring stories
About how bad things have come to be
They say “You got to, got to, got to feed the hungry”
“You got to, got to, got to heal the sick”
I say we ain’t gotta do nothin’ for nobody
‘Cause they won’t work a lick, you know
They just gonna have to roll with the punches, yes they will
Gonna have to roll with them
They gonna have to roll with the punches, yes they will
It don’t matter whether you’re white, black or brown
You won’t get nowhere putting down
The old Red, White and Blue
Tap it baby. Alright.
Look at those little shorts he’s got on, ladies and
gentlemen
You can see all the way to Argentina
Get it
So pretty
Let ‘em go to Belgium, let ‘em go to France
Let ‘em go to Russia
Well at least they ought to have the chance to go there
We have talked about the red, we have talked about the blue
Now we gonna talk about the white
That’s what we’re gonna have to do
Now we had to roll with the punches, yes we did
We had to roll with ‘em
We had to roll with the punches
Yes we did
We had to roll with ‘em
I don’t care what you say
You’re livin’ in the greatest country in the world
When you’re livin’ in the USA
Tap it out baby, all right

People tell me that I brag a lot ’cause I call myself the Masterman
Always talkin’ ’bout how I got dynamite in every hand
Hit it
Me and my brother we live alone, got no television, got no telephone
But when we walk down the street people get out of the way
They say “Here come the Masterman and Baby J”
“Here come the Masterman and Baby J”
Hit it–hit it
When we get on the mike we’ll be number one
Even top D.M.C. and Run
Everybody’s gonna have some fun
‘Cause we’re takin’ ‘em all the way down
We’re takin’ ‘em all the way down
Gonna rap about this, gonna rap about that
Gonna tell everybody where it’s at
All over the world people gonna say
You got to dig the Masterman and Baby J
You got to dig the Masterman and Baby J
Hit it
People tell me “Man you live in a dump”
“You won’t never be nothin’ but a pumped-up chump”
You got no money–you got no sense
You won’t never be nothing, you won’t never be nothing
I say well-well-well-well 

When I look out my window, you know what I see
I don’t see no whores in the stinkin’ street
I don’t see no drunks and junkies dying
I don’t see no bums or garbage flyin’
I see me and J in the L.A. Coliseum
100,000 people on their feet
And they’re laughin’ and bumpin’ and screamin’ and cryin’
And jumpin’ up on their seat
And then the band begins to play and then they hush up
And then the band begins to play and then they hush up
And it gets real quiet in the Coliseum with the stage all
dark and bare
Maybe a little rain begins to fall–yeah
But the people stayin’ right there
Then you can hear that announcer say
Please welcome! (the crowd roars)
Please welcome! (the crowd roars)
L.A.’s own, the number one
The biggest, the best, the number one band in the USA
The Masterman and Baby J!
The Masterman and Baby J!

Left Los Angeles a short while ago
Flew ‘cross the country back to Buffalo
Walked around through the sleet and the snow
With a red bandana on my head
Saw my momma on 12th and Grand
Standing in the alley with the junkyard man
They were both so loaded they could hardly stand
Talkin’ ’bout going to Mexico
I said “Momma I was born
Out there I was born again
Been clear to California and back
Was out there so long many times I thought I was dead”
She said, “Sonny what’s that you got wrapped around your head?”
It’s a Red Bandana
It’s a Red Bandana
It’s a Red Bandana
It’s from Hollywood USA
Looked for the woman I used to love
Seen her in a bar off the Harlem road
Talking in a booth with Charley Hobbs
And this ugly little dude whom I didn’t know
She said “Honey you’re back I’m so glad
When you was gone I was so sad
You come in here lookin’ so bad
With that red bandana on your head
With that red bandana on your head”
Yes! It’s a Red Bandana
It’s a Red Bandana
It’s a Red Bandana
And it’s red just like your blood is

You can stand alone
Or with somebody else
Or stand with all of us, together
If you can believe
In something bigger than yourself
You can follow the flag forever
They say it’s just a dream
That dreamers dreamed
That it’s an empty thing that really has no meaning
They say it’s all a lie
But it’s not a lie
I’m going to follow the flag ’til I die
Into every life a little rain must fall
But it’s not gonna rain forever
You can rise above–you can rise above it all
We will follow the flag together
We will follow the flag forever

Of all of the people that I used to know
Most never adjusted to the great big world
I see them lurking in book stores
Working for the Public Radio
Carrying their babies around in a sack on their back
Moving careful and slow
It’s money that matters
Hear what I say
It’s money that matters
In the USA
All of these people are much brighter than I
In any fair system they would flourish and thrive
But they barely survive
They eke out a living and they barely survive
When I was a young boy, maybe thirteen
I took a hard look around me and asked what does it mean?
So I talked to my father, and he didn’t know
And I talked to my friend and he didn’t know
And I talked to my brother and he didn’t know
And I talked to everybody that I knew
It’s money that matters
Now you know that it’s true
It’s money that matters
Whatever you do
Then I talked to a man lived up on the county line
I was washing his car with a friend of mine
He was a little fat guy in a red jumpsuit
I said “You look kind of funny”
He said “I know that I do”
“But I got a great big house on the hill here
And a great big blonde wife inside it
And a great big pool in my backyard and another great big pool
beside it
Sonny it’s money that matters, hear what I say
It’s money that matters in the USA
It’s money that matters
Now you know that it’s true
It’s money that matters whatever you do”

I ran out on my children
And I ran out on my wife
Gonna run out on you too, baby
I’ve done it all my life
Everybody cried the night I left
Well, almost everybody did
My little boy just hung his head
And I put my arm, put my arm around his little shoulder
And this is what I said:
“Sonny I just want you to hurt like I do
I just want you to hurt like I do
I just want you to hurt like I do
Honest I do, honest I do, honest I do”
If I had one wish
One dream I knew would come true
I’d want to speak to all the people of the world
I’d get up there, I’d get up there on that platform
First I’d sing a song or two you know I would
Then I’ll tell you what I’d do
I’d talk to the people and I’d say
“It’s a rough rough world, it’s a tough tough world
Well, you know
And things don’t always, things don’t always go the way we plan
But there’s one thing, one thing we all have in common
And it’s something everyone can understand
All over the world sing along
I just want you to hurt like I do
I just want you to hurt like I do
I just want you to hurt like I do
Honest I do, honest I do, honest I do”

I know how I got in trouble
I know how I came to grief
I know why people all over
Are disappointed with me

When I get up I want down
When I got thin I want fat fat fat fat
When I get square I want round
When I got this I want that

You’d better make up your mind
You’d better make up your mind
I understand what you’re sayin’ to me
Make up your mind
But I can’t do it

Every time things look good, makes me feel bad
Each time a little bird of happiness flies by
It makes me feel so goddamn sad
I want to cry
Make up your mind

This little piggy went to the market
And that little piggy got caught up and put in a zoo
Last little piggy went waa waa waa waa waa waa
‘Cause he didn’t know what he was supposed to do

Comes a time in every man’s life
When he must decide
Whether he want to drive a bus
Or just go along for the ride

You’d better make up your mind
Make up your mind
I understand you sister
Make up your mind
I understand you sister
Make up your mind
But I can’t do it