Red Clay - Freddie Hubbard

The girls all dance with the boys from the city But they don't care to dance with me Well it ain't my fault that the fields are muddy And the red clay stains my feet Well its under my nails and its under my collar And it shows on my Sunday clothes Though I do my best with soap and water That damned old dirt won't go But when I pass through the pearly gates Will my gown be gold instead Or just a red clay robe with red clay wings And a red clay halo for my head It's mud in the spring and it's dust in the summer When it rolls in crimson tide Â'Til the trees and leaves and the cows are the color Of the dirt on the mountainside Now Jordan's banks are red and muddy And the rolling water is wide But I got no boat, so I'll be good and muddy When I get to the other side I'll take the red clay robe and the red clay wings And the red clay halo for my head

[Hook] Have you ever, been stuck in Red Clay? Have you ever, been down south this way? Cuz niggaz down here don't wanna play Southern Country boys from around the way [Verse 1] Straight to the forefront, never holding back Mr. DJ, on the tracks, so I can't slack In fact I consistently hold more raid than the Gen's army Never said you'll harm me And you protecting your buffoons when alarm me I got you stuck like superglue You had no clue no need for beefing in my stew, I gotta crew to do Dirt hurt you and your flunky Beat you down like junkies That's the high, now we got the munchies Instead of smacking fast mouths I doze, I close, I chose my foes I finger-fuck bitches like hoes So I suppose as many plenty that any little skinny B Got enemies we down south drinking Hennessey [Hook x2] [Verse 2] Hey, back up, break 'em down like a compound Nah, shake 'em up like an earth quake 'til they fall down Then smoke 'em out like a pig in a blanket Yeah, roast his ass like a turkey by banquet See I did more dirt than the old maid Get rougher and tougher than leather but smooth like suede Got the power to crush you like the abdominal snowman Then grind your ass, like glass back to sand As I map out and diagram my hit I'm a calculate the many ways the body can split As I look you in the face and spit I'm gonna watch you fall through this bottomless pit So who you laughing at Jack, cuz the joke's on you Claiming true coming down this way In the coupe like that nigger (what) (Straight out of that south side) (You know we putting it down, come on) [Chorus x2] [Verse 3] Well, let me get loose and spit my verbal juice On tracks I raps the G stacks and packs we pack mack for those who slack And whack, act, and who you got your back? I don't need my boys to bruise you Kick a verse and loose you Hey, booboo, who control your brain like lyrical voodoo That's how I screw you, so who do You want to see Now, Ni you got the most exciting Stevie, believe me So many want to be me From the south side of the A We blaze purple haze in many days And in many ways, crime pays My mind would drive through my way Then start to hit you hard like pavement Me and my niggas yeah, we stay bad. Coming through the "Y" You'll find me locally down south Run your mouth in my house and get tossed out I heard you said we was slow Check the flow I got more in store down south this way we getting paid Where we stay [Chorus x2] [Fade]

She comes from silver spoon, golden rule, private school Never missed Sunday church And I come from blue collar, low dollar Out here where concrete meets old red dirt And I don't know what happened But it sure don't add up on paper But when I close my eyes late at night You can bet I thank my maker She keeps on loving me Loves me the way I am She's not just along for the ride She's my biggest fan Lord, it's a little old piece of heaven When we lay down at night She keeps on loving me And I keep on wondering why She's got a wicked smile, angel eyes Every guy wanting to hold her close She's as pretty as sin Like the sun sinking down on the California coast She keeps on loving me Loves me the way I am She's not just along for the ride She's my biggest fan Lord, it's a little old piece of heaven When we lay down at night She keeps on loving me And I keep on wondering why Alright, alright, alright I don't know what happened But it sure don't add up on paper And as long as she lets me I'll take her wherever she wants me to take her, oh She keeps on loving me Loves me the way I am She's not just along for the ride She's my biggest fan And it's a little old piece of heaven When we lay down at night She keeps on loving me And I keep on wondering why She keeps on loving me And I keep on wondering why

You say you're in this All the right reasons There's been too many times I've questioned your intentions Your words mean nothing If you never back 'em up I've had all I can take I've had more than enough And I'm tired, so tired of these games we play Sitting around just waiting for something to change Feel like all you ever do All you ever do is do me wrong Feel like all you ever do All you ever do is do me wrong Feel like all you ever do All you ever do is do me wrong And I can't keep hanging on I'm good as gone Of course, there's been good times But not in a good while Seem like when I try to reach you Lord, you never reach back out We're merely just a shell of what we used to be I don't see things getting better now, honey We've come apart at the seam And I'm tired, so tired of these games we play Sitting around just waiting for something to change Feel like all you ever do All you ever do is do me wrong Feel like all you ever do All you ever do is do me wrong Feel like all you ever do All you ever do is do me wrong And I can't keep hanging on I'm good as gone Feel like all you ever do All you ever do is do me wrong Feel like all you ever do All you ever do is do me wrong Feel like all you ever do All you ever do is do me wrong And I can't keep hanging on I'm good as gone

Round' here lately it's been rough Too much heartbreak not enough love I've been doubtin' if I'll ever find myself again And I worry I won't ever be enough Oooh I've been searching for the truth And then I tell myself Whatever don't kill makes you tough Can't tap out when the times gets rough I know it ain't easy but the only way that we get stronger Is get a little burnt yeah take a little fall Hurts like hell when you're goin' through it all Get knocked down but we get back up Whatever don't kill you makes you tough tough Whatever don't kill you makes you tough tough Aw yeah I've been beat up black and blue I've been broke a time or two I've had nothing left to lose But then my faith pulled me through No more searching for the truth And now I tell myself Whatever don't kill you makes you tough Can't tap out when the times gets rough I know it ain't easy but the only way that we get stronger Is get a little burnt yeah take a little fall Hurts like hell when you're goin' through it all Get knocked down but we get back up Whatever don't kill you makes you tough tough Whatever don't kill you makes you tough tough We fall down we get up It's how we do it where we from We got us we got love We tough We fall down we get up It's how we do it where we from We got us we got love We tough Whatever don't kill you makes you tough Can't tap out when the times gets rough I know it ain't easy but the only way that we get stronger Is get a little burnt yeah take a little fall Hurts like hell when you're goin' through it all Get knocked down but we get back up Whatever don't kill you makes you tough tough Whatever don't kill you makes you tough tough We tough we tough

So here we are now, guitars and drums High and lowdown just some Dharma bums Gate mouth would tell you rehearsal's overrated Baptists will tell you it's all predestinated Between the devil and God, between the first breath and last Somewhere under heaven with no future and a hell of a past We in the mud and scum of things, moaning, crying, lying At least we ain't Lazarus and had to think twice about dying At least we ain't Lazarus and had to think twice about dying So here we are now, still preceding grace We ain't easy to look at and keep a straight face Inspired by Rimbaud ain't angelic Influenced by the dead, just gets you psychedelic So here we are now kinda like abandoned dogs Wrapped up in Gunnysacks and singing cast iron songs We're weird old America, we're grinning with sharp teeth We're beautiful on the surface and rotten underneath

My rooster crows at dawn My rooster crows at dawn Don't do nothing when the dark come on You know it don't seem right Ah, it don't seem right Bird oughta do something about it gettin' night I ain't the criminal kind I was never the criminal kind I just do a little pilfering from time to time It was around Muscle Shoals It was around Muscle Shoals I was crawlin' in a window, I got shot full of holes So it was at that time It was at that time I decided to forgo my life of crime So I got me a guitar Oh, I got me a guitar I play all night for some money in a jar I got me a suit of clothes I got a suit of clothes I rarely get home before my rooster crows My rooster crows at dawn My rooster crows at dawn Don't do nothing when the dark come on