Give A Damn-Spanky & Our Gang

[ti:Give A Damn (Album Version)] [ar:Spanky & Our Gang] [al:The Complete Mercury Recordings] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.77]If you'd take the train with me [00:03.77]Uptown thru the misery [00:06.65]Of ghetto streets in morning light [00:09.85] [00:10.75]It's always night [00:12.21] [00:13.07]Take a window seat put down your times [00:16.27] [00:17.10]You can read between the lines [00:19.49]Just meet the faces that you meet [00:23.09]Beyond the window's pane [00:25.61] [00:27.10]And it might begin to teach you [00:29.63] [00:30.50]How to give a damn about your fellow man [00:35.21] [00:36.76]And it might begin to teach you [00:39.43] [00:40.05]How to give a damn about your fellow man [00:45.10] [00:49.41]Or put your girl to sleep sometime [00:52.03]With rats instead of nursery rhymes [00:55.31]With hunger and your other children [00:58.92]By her side [01:00.48] [01:02.15]And wonder if you'll share your bed [01:05.40]With something else which must be fed [01:08.57]For fear may lie beside you [01:11.36] [01:11.91]Or it may sleep down the hall [01:14.77] [01:16.14]And it might begin to teach you [01:18.78] [01:19.50]How to give a damn about your fellow man [01:24.85] [01:26.02]And it might begin to teach you [01:28.67] [01:29.41]How to give a damn about your fellow man [01:34.12] [01:35.28]Come and see how well despair [01:38.06]Is seasoned by the stif'ling air [01:41.68]See your ghetto in the good old [01:44.96]Sizzling summertime [01:47.25] [01:47.88]Suppose the streets were all on fire [01:51.13]The flames like tempers leaping higher [01:54.42]Suppose you'd lived there all your life [01:57.63]Do you think that you would mind [02:00.93] [02:01.92]And it might begin to reach you [02:04.64] [02:05.30]Why we give a damn about my fellow man [02:10.69] [02:11.88]And it might begin to teach you [02:14.48] [02:15.38]How to give a damn about your fellow man [02:20.30] [02:21.79]And it might begin to reach you [02:24.17] [02:25.07]Why we give a damn [02:31.49] [02:32.01]Give A Damn (Album Version) - Spanky & Our Gang [02:34.82]