Why Am I Treated So Bad Songtext
von Mavis Staples

Why, am I treated so bad?
Tell me, oh why? oh why? am I treated so bad?
Well, You know I′m all alone as I sing this song
Hear my call, I've done nobody wrong
But I′m treated so bad

Well, yeah! yes
I'm gonna walk out in the master name
Things I do, they seem to be in vain
You may be blind, you may be lame
Walk on out in the master name
Though you're treated so bad

Well, yeah, yes
It′s a mighty long lane, it′s a mighty long lane
You know ain't got no end
Well, it′s a battle when, a battle when, ah-ah, you no longer ever change
Yes, yes
I think I heard somebody calling my name
Saying, for the rough the road, things are gonna change
Still I'm treated so bad


Well, well, yeah, mmm
You know, sometime you get so tired
And sometime you get so weary
You know, haha, we′ve been picked on, called names, stoned and spit at
But that didn't bother us, we just keep on walking
And you know, I use to hear my grandma

She walk around the house all day long
Just moaning, I′ll listen to her moan
While she was cooking, she moan
Walking in her garden

So one day, I said I'm gonna find out what grandma is moaning about
So i asked her, I said grandma!
Why do you moan all the time like that?
She said well baby, when you moan
The devil don't know what you′re talking about
Yeah! So that′s what I do
Sometimes i just fold my arms, and i begin to moan
Mm-mm, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh

Ooh ooh ooh ooooooh
Ooh ooh ooh oooooooh
Oooh ooh ooh oooooh ooh ooh oohhh

You may me blind, you may be lame
Walk on out in the master name


Though you're treated so bad
Though you′re treated so bad
Though you're treated so bad
Though you′re treated so bad

Though you're treated so bad
Though you′re treated so bad
Though you're treated so bad
Though you're treated so bad

Though you′re treated so bad
Though you′re treated so bad
Though you're treated so bad
Though you′re treated so bad