Woo got to get together, baby
Yeah, alright now
This is something that I want
You to pay special attention
Because if we don't make it
We gonna blow ourselves to kingdom come
I know a beautiful truth
And it's helping me free, yeah
I know in my blood I'm Black
And I'm white, and I'm red, yeah
The blood of mankind flows in me
But in every face, in every face I see
I see a part of you and a part of me
Together get together
Before it's too late
Got to do it before it's too late, baby woo
Evеrybody alright, yeah
Got to do it listen because it's important
Now there are those who hate
For the love of hate
And there are those who hate
Because they are hated a world destruction
Can only be our fate, yeah
The doom that hate has created
So we got to get together, everybody
Black and white, Puerto Ricans, Cubans
Everybody
Together if we gonna make it, baby
Got to do it together
Yeah woo
Alright
Alright, listen listen with your hearts
Listen with your minds as well as your ears
If you would take my hand
If you would dare to see, yeah
The beauty in this land
That love can set free
A force to lift us all
And it's called humanity for you and for me
Together got to get together, baby
Before, before it's too late, baby uh, yeah
Alright
I'm gon' tell you one more time
And it's about me this is me, Ray Barretto
I know a beautiful truth
And it's made me for free
I know that in my blood
I got Black and white
Red, Puerto Rican, Indian i'm all messed up
But I got soul, I know it
Yeah, the blood of mankind flows in me
And so in every face, in every face I see
I see a part of you and you and you and me
Together I said together
We all have to get together, baby
Before it's too damn late, yeah
Get together, everybody
Got to do it one more time, yeah
I said everybody get together
Got to do it all if we gonna live
Not on the moon, right here on Earth, baby
We got to do it all together
Before it's too goddamn late
Ray Barretto released Together on Wed Dec 31 1969.