You am what you am
When you am it
This whole world is all we've got
So don't you damn it

You know all God's children
Ain't got shoes
Some folks got
Nothin' but the blues

So of them that's got
Help their brothers get
We could make this old world
A better place yet

'Cause you am what you am
When you am it
Life's an open door
So don't you slam it

All God's children
Ain't got shoes
Some folks got
Nothin' but the blues

Take birds of a feather
Like to live up in the same tree
But it really don't matter whether
I be you or you be me
'Cause you am what you am
When you am it
The world is all we've got
So don't you damn it

You can see your ship a-comin'
But you just can't stand no more
Get yourself together
And bring your ship up on the shore

'Cause you am what you am
When you am it
The world is all we've got
So don't you damn it