Black Berries
(专辑: The Brothers: Isley - 1969)
You know my brothers and I
was raised in Cincinnati Cincinnati Ohio And I
remember when we were kids we used to walk to the
woods And go black berry picking Swinging our baskets on our arms Skipping down the
road, you know And Kelly used to have an expression, you used to say back then We made a
song out of that expression I
remember the
words of it It used to go a
little like this The
blacker the
berry the
sweeter the
juice He said these words The
blacker the
berry he said the
sweeter the
juice The
blacker the
berry sweeter the
juice You know he digged black berries so much And everywhere he would go he would use that as his excuse you know Staying out late at night And my brother Rudolph he used to like strawberries, if I
remember correctly, at the
time And at the
time my thing was wild cherries I
remember the
three of us used to steal tomatoes And lay on the
ground and peel all kind of ice potatoes [?] Saying The
blacker the
berry The
sweeter the
juice Alright Lord have mercy Yeah, yeah We used to strip down bananas And throw the
peelings away at the
same time in the
street, you know And when it got hot we just drank all the
lemonade we could get Til we knocked ourselves clean off our feet And we walked along Singing the
blacker the
berry the
sweeter the
juice Come on y'all Black berry The
sweeter the
juice Help me sing this song Black berries The
sweeter, the
sweet the
juice Now how would you look eating a
green berry, you know What's the
use Swing you basket on your arm Sing it sing it sing this song The
blacker the
berry The
blacker the
berry Yeah yeah The
sweeter the
juice I
like black berries And everywhere I
go, that's my excuse I
can still hear them singing the
song If you listen hard enough you'll hear The
sweeter the
juice The
blacker the
berry Blacker the
berry I
like black berries That's my excuse Black black black Sweeter the
juice Sing it one more time Little baby The
sweeter the
juice I
like black berries I
like black berries That's my excuse Sing, sing sing the
song Blacker the
berry Sweeter the
juice Blacker the
berries Sweeter the
juice I
like black berries I
like black berries That's my excuse We would wander along Sing sing sing the
song I
like black berries I
like black berries That's my excuse