Respect Yourself song by The Staple Singers from Primary Album Be-altitude-respect-yourself. The music is composed and produced by Joel. Genre is Seventies, Soul, Stax music. The Record company is unknown. Released on January 1, 1971.
Respect Yourself Meaning
[[Verse 1] If you disrespect anybody That you run in to How in the world do you think Anybody’s supposed 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’re the kind of gentleman That want everything your way Take the sheet off your face, boy It’s a brand new day [Chorus] 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 [Verse 2] If you’re walking ’round Thinkin’ that the world Owes you something ‘Cause you’re here , You’re goin’ out The world backwards Like you did When you first come here Keep talkin’ ’bout the president Won’t stop air pollution Put your hand on your mouth When you cough, that’ll help the solution Oh, you cuss around women folk And you don’t even know their names And you’re dumb enough to think That’ll make you a big ol’ man [Chorus] 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 Respect yourself, respect yourself] |
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