If You Don't Look Around

(album: Time To Think - 1963)

They told me don'cha go down to that city
Don't you go down to that city, I say
For there's trouble there for sure and it's no concern of yours
And it's all I have to hear them people say

If you don't look around, you won't see my a-going
See me a-going that way
If you don't look around, you'll have no way of knowing
I don't think you even know what I say

And I saw children just walking 'long and singing
When a voice from behind me rang through
Then I saw an ugly man with a mad dog in his hand
He said, "Stand right there. I'll turn him loose on you"

If you don't look around, you won't see my a-going
See me a-going that way
If you don't look around, you'll have no way of knowing
I don't think you even know what I say

So don't tell me there ain't no time for singing
'Cause I don't need no empty words from you
If they're saying who ain't free then they're saying it right to me
So, go back home. I'll wake you when we're through

If you don't look around, you won't see my a-going
See me a-going that way
If you don't look around, you'll have no way of knowing
I don't think you even know what I say