If You Don’t Give a Doggone About It

[Intro]
Hey, fellas!
Sometimes your business is all messed up, yeah!
…sometimes you don't have your thing together, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
…and when your thing is all messed up… somebody will take that fire, yeah!
Sooooo
If you

[Chorus]
Don't give
A doggone about it…!
If (if you…) you don't give… (say it, now…)
A doggone about it…! (say it…)
If you don't give…
A doggone about it…! (say it!)
(if you don't give…)
(A doggone about it…)
Then they—!
They won't give a damn!

[Chorus]
If you don't give…
A doggone about it…!
If you don't give… (hey, yeah…)
A doggone about it…!
(say it!) if you don't give…
A doggone about it…
Then they—!
They won't give a damn!
Sit down!

[Verse 1]
Yeah…!
Oh, yeah! Come on, now—tell me
(Get on, now!)
(Go ahead!) jb! (go ahead!) jb!
(Go ahead!) look here
You got to have a job… with both, feet, on the table!
You got to have a job… to keep that family able
You got to have a job!—to keep the thing… in effect!
You got to have a job… to keep your self-respect, now
You got to have a job… to put the bread on the table! (hey!)
You got to have a job… to keep that family able!

[Chorus]
If you don't give‼
A doggone about it!
If you don't give
A doggone about it! (say it!)
If you don't give… (yeah, yeah…)
A doggone about it!
If you don't give
A doggone about it
Then they!
Won't give a damn
Sit down, now!

[Outro]
Well
Good god, now!
Oh… (oh!) oh‼ let me have it
Touch me
Touch me‼—yeah
Get down!
Tell the boy i need, to
Get down!
Stomp that far degree!
Get down!
I want a modern name, yeah
Get down!
Keep my product right
Get down!
Love… it![x10]
(Love it! Yeah-yeah, now!)
Love it! (love it!)[x4]
Love it… (love it…) song and dance
Love it!—yeah… (love it!)
Love-that-thing-they-do
Love-that-thing-they-yeah-yeah
Uh, yeah…
Love it… i just… love it! (love it! Yeah, yeah…) love it!
(love it!) love it!
(love it!) love it!
(love it… woooooo-ooo, lord)
I need it
Need it
(got to have it!) love it—yeah-yeah, yeah, yeah
Ya-ya-ya
Ya-ya-ya-yeah!
Love it, yeah! (love it, yeah!)
Love it, yeah! (love it, yeah!) come on! (woo!)
Got to have a job… to put the food on the table!
Got to have a job… to keep that party able
Got to have a job… to bring… home the bread—ah!
Got to have a job… to keep that family fed, now!
Got-ta… got-ta… got-ta…
Got-ta… keep on loving, yeh
Keep on loving!
Want some loving! (loving!)[x5]
I need it… (i need… it!)
Some-some, some-some
Some-some, some-some
Some-some, some-some, (come on!)
(and… you know!) get some!
Get some-some… (why won't you) give me some
(Oo-woo…) some… (woo) loving… (woo!) somebody
(Eahhh…) somebody, yeah… (loving—yeah!) some loving, yeah!
(You got to come with me!) love-love-loving, yeah-yeah!
(Loving, yeah!) love-love-love, now, gimme some loving, yeah
(Yeah, yeah, yeah!) give me some funk
(Come on, keep on…) a little bit of honey
(What's that?) honey
(Push it, now!) push that funk down out to me, yeah
(What's that?) that honey… (push it out there, y'all…)
Got-ta got-ta (you-got, you-got, you-got, you-got,)
Got-ta got-ta (you-got, you-got, you-got, you-got,)
Got-ta yeaa-owww!! (you-got, you-got, you-got, you-got!)
Get down!
(Get down!)
Yeaaaah!
Stop and go! (yeah?) yeah! (yeah!—come on,) yeah!
(Yeah! Come, on!) get it together!
Go! (go) go!-(yeah!)
Go!-(yeah!)
(yeah!)
Go!-(yeah!)
Go!-(yeah!)
(yeah! Yeah)
Go!-(yeah!)
Go!-(yeah!)
Go!-(yeah!)
Go!-(yeah!)
(yeah)