Mavis Staples
No Time For Cryin’ (Live)
[Intro]
Yeah
[Verse 1]
No time for crying
No time for tears
Got no time for crying
No time for tears
[Chorus]
We've got work to do
We've got work to do
We've got work to do
We've got work to do
Hey
[Verse 2]
People are crying
Bullets are flying
No time for tears
No time for tears
[Chorus]
We've got work to do
We've got work to do, y'all
We've got work to do, yeah
We've got work to do
Well, yeah
[Interlude]
Well, yeah
[Verse 3]
Gotta look at the children, y'all
Gotta look at the children, well
Gotta see about the
See about the little babies, well, well
Motherless children, mmm
Motherless children, mmm
Oh, what a world we're living in
It's a mean old world that we're living in
Taking babies away from their mothers
Taking babies away from their mothers
We got motherless children, oh yeah
Motherless children, huh
I don't know about you
But I'ma tell you what I'm gon' do
I'm gonna march right up to that
I'm gonna march right up to that big house
[Chorus]
We got work to do, y'all
We got a job
We got work to do
We got work to do
We got work to do, woo
Work to do
We got work to do
We got work to do
We got work to do
We got work to do
Work to do
Work to do
[Outro]
Yeah