Git On Up And Do It - Rufus Thomas

If you wanna be somebody, you can’t mess around

If you want to be somebody, you can’t mess around

I want y’all to listen what I sang in this song

Listen to the voice of experience

I wouldn’t tell you nothin' wrong

If you met a to-ho, you better hold on if you can

But if you lose that to-ho, back up and try it again

You got to get on up and do it

That’s all it is to it

Got to get on up and do it

That’s all it is to it

If you wanna be somebody, tell you what you gotta do

You got to go to it, 'cause to it ain’t comin' to you

You got to get on up and do it

That’s all it is to it

Get on up and do it

That’s all it is to it

So, now

George Washington Carver, he got in a rut

But he came up with a whole lot of things

From a plant called a peanut

And there was a Martin Luther

Who didn’t give up the fight

He’s the one that started that song

The road to civil right

You got to get on up and do it

That’s all it is to it

Got to get on up and do it

That’s all it is to it

You can’t just sit back

You got to get on up

You can’t just sit down, no

You got to git on up

Get on up and move

Get on up and move

Get on up and move

Get on up and move

Hangin' out on the corner, can cause some tears

You’ve had more trouble in five minutes

Than you can get out in twenty years

You got to get on up and do it

That’s all it is to it

Get on up and do it

That’s all it is to it

Get on up, and do it

Get on up, get on up and do it