Duke Ellington
Will You Be There / Won’t Do
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Will you be there? (Will you be there?)
Will your name be called?
Will your name be called?
Will you be there?
Will your name be called?
Doo, doo
[MAN, spoken]
Did you live one hundred percent
What the Ten Commandments meant?
[ENSEMBLE]
Will you be there? (Will you be there?)
Will your name be called?
Doo
[WOMAN 1, spoken]
Make one hundred percent your goal
And make it to save your soul
[ENSEMBLE]
Will you be there? (Will you be there?)
Will your name be called?
Ninety-nine percent won't do
Ninety-nine and a half ain't enough
Ooh
[WOMAN 1, spoken]
It's got to be all or nothing or all
Either you pass or you call
[ENSEMBLE]
Ninety-nine percent won't do
Ooh
[WOMAN 2, spoken]
So try to get yourself a little straighter
Pays a million to one a little later
[ENSEMBLE]
Ninety-nine percent won't do
Ooh
[WOMAN 3, spoken]
If you love yourself, be good to yourself
Be one hundred percent wise
That's the ticket to heaven
And there is no compromise
[ENSEMBLE]
Ninety-nine percent won't do
Ninety-nine percent won't do, no, no, won't do