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Funky World
Oscar Brown Jr.
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The day the world turns funky
When some fool pulls the trigger
Somebody hollers "Honkey"
And someone else cries "Nigger"
And my good old bay buddy
Becomes the enemy
The streets be running bloody, yeah
Just like him and me
The day the world turns funky
Gets bombed back to the jungles
When man returns to monkey
Because of General Bungles
The missiles, they'll start flying
Flying, flying around at everyone, yes
And people will start dying
All by the megaton
On the day the world turns funky
The tide gets turned to tears
And in them man is a-sunk
He just simply disappears
And what has my heart hurting
As these scenes I foresee
Is feeling that for certain, Lord
It doesn't have to be, no, no, no
It doesn't have to be such a funky world
Hey, you know it really doesn't have to be a funky world at all
If, if, if only, if only President Nixon
Could get on television and say "shit"
Instead of using really dirty words like "
Overkill", "megadeaths" in front of your children
There might be a lot less obscenity in the world
Hey, it doesn't have to be such a funky, funky world
Or, or if Vice President Agnew could get on television
Now, he stays on television a lot these days
If only he could get on television
And insist that we get on television
I don't mean just flitting through on some soap commercials
Us black folks got some news for you
It may not be the whole truth, but it's
Certainly an important part of the truth
That America has never honestly considered
I mean, if you truly love your countryDidn't
Love it enough to know the truth about it
And to know the truth about America
Surely you have to know the truth about slavery in America
And to arrive at that
You can't just listen to the testimony of the slave master
There's another witness
With important evidence
And only that can put us all in touch
In touch with reality
And only in touch with reality
Are we going to be able to save this world
This nation
Or be fit to fraternize out among the stars
Hey, it doesn't have to be such a funky, funky world
No, no, such a funky world
That's all, that's all
That's, that's all the new generation seems to be protesting
And of course, of course their protests offend some of us greatly
But then, some of us do have our
Our generations gapped out pretty bad
And yet, if there is a generation gap
It hardly seems fair to blame it on the children
After all, we had control of them from the time they were tiny babies
So, if somewhere along the line contact is lost
And the communications break down
Face it, either you planted a bad seed
Or there was something about your program that was funky
But it doesn't have to be
It doesn't have to be
It doesn't have to be
It doesn't have to be
You know damn well it doesn't have to be such a funky world
No, no, no, no, no
Doesn't have to be such a funky world
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