Thank You for Hearing Me: “We People Who Are Darker Than Blue”

	We people, who are darker than blue,
	Don't let us hang around this town
	And let what others say come true.
	We're just good for nothing, they all figure,
	A boyish grown-up, shiftless jizzer.
	Now we can't hardly stand for that,
	Or is that really where it's at?

	We people, who are darker than blue,
	We've got no time for segregating.
	I'm talking about brown and yellow, too.
	I, a white girl, can't U tell,
	I'm just the surface of our dark, deep well.
	If your mind could really see,
	You'd know your colour's same as me.

	Pardon me, brother,
	As U stand in your glory,
	I know U won't mind
	If I tell the whole story.

	Now we have great respect
	For the sister and the mother;
	It's even better yet.
	But there's the joker in the street
	Loving one brother and killing the other.
	When the time comes, and we are really free,
	There'll be no brothers left to see.

	We people, who are darker than blue,
	Don't let us hang around this town
	And let what others say come true.
	We're just good for nothing, they all figure,
	A boyish grown-up, shiftless jizzer.
	Now we can't hardly stand for that,
	Or is that really where it's at?

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“We People Who Are Darker Than Blue”

Composed by Curtis Mayfield

6 versions

3:56

4:25

4:01 (as "We People (Who Are Darker Than Blue)")

3:32 album radio edit

3:58

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