Say It Loud—I’m Black and I’m Proud, Part 1 Songtext
von James Brown

Uh!
Watch your bad self

Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud)
Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud)
Look it here

Some people say we got lot of malice
Some say it's a lot of nerve
But I say we won′t quit movin′
Until we get what we deserve

We've been buked and we′ve been scorned
We've been treated bad, talked about as sure as you′re born
But just as sure as it take two eyes to make a pair, huh
Brother, we can't quit until we get our share

Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud)
Say it loud (I'm black and I′m proud)
One more time, say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud), huh


I′ve worked on jobs with my feet and my hands
But all the work I did was for the other man
And now we demand a chance to do things for ourselves
We tired of beatin' our head against the wall
And workin′ for someone else

Say it loud (I'm black and I′m proud)
Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud)
Say it loud I′m black and I′m proud)
Say it loud (I'm black and I′m proud), ooh!

Ooh-wee, you're killin′ me
Alright, uh, you're outta sight
Altight, so tough, you′re tough enough
Ooh-wee, uh, you're killin' me
Ooh!

Say it loud (I′m black and I′m proud)
Say it loud (I'm black and I′m proud)

Now we demand a chance to do things for ourselves
We tired of beatin' our heads against the wall
And workin′ for someone else
Look here, there's one thing more I got to say right here
Now, now we′re people, we like the birds and bees
But we rather die on our feet than keep livin' on our knees


Say it loud (I'm black and I′m proud), huh
Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud), huh
Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud), Lordy, Lordy, Lordy
Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud), ooh!

Uh!
Alright now, good God
You know we can do the boogaloo
Now, we can say we do the funky part
Now we do, huh
Sometimes we dance, we sing and we talk
You know I do back, I do the camel walk
Alright now, huh, alright
Alright now, huh

Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud)
Say it loud (I'm black and I′m proud), hear me, yeah
Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud)
Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud)

Now we demand a chance and we do things for ourself
We′re tired of beatin' our heads against the wall
And workin′ for someone else, huh
You know, we are people too, we're like birds and the bees
But we'd rather die on our feet than keep livin′ on our knees

Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud)
Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud), let me hear ya, huh
Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud), huh
Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud), ooh!

Ooh-wee, you're killing me
Alright, huh, out of sight
Alright, you out of sight
Ooh-wee, ooh no!
Ooh-wee, you′re killing me
Ooh-wee, ooh-wee
Ooh-wee, ooh-oh

Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud), huh
Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud), God, can you feel it
Say it loud, huh (I′m black and I'm proud)
Say it loud (I′m black and I'm proud)