Together (Summer of Soul Soundtrack - Live at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival)

[Intro]
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

[Verse 1]
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

[Pre-Chorus]
But in every face, in every face I see
I see a part of you and a part of me

[Chorus]
Together
Get together
Before it's too late
Got to do it before it's too late, baby
Woo

[Post-Chorus]
Evеrybody
Alright, yeah
Got to do it
Listen becausе it's important

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
Together
If we gonna make it, baby
Got to do it together

[Post-Chorus]
Yeah
Woo
Alright

[Verse 3]
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

[Chorus]
Together
Got to get together, baby
Before, before it's too late, baby
Uh, yeah

[Post-Chorus]
Alright

[Verse 4]
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

[Pre-Chorus]
And so in every face, in every face I see
I see a part of you and you and you and me

[Chorus]
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