James Brown
Doing It To Death (Single Edit)
Hit it

Ho! How you feeling, brother?
(Feeling good)
You feel good? (Feeling good and groovy)
Play so much 'bone, brother!
How you feel, man?
(I feel alright)
I won't call your name
I don't want no people to know you're in here
How you feel, fellas?
Hey, Jab, sure getting down
Looka here, ha

We're gonna have a funky good time
We're gonna have a funky good time
We're gonna have a funky good time, ha
We're gonna have a funky good time
Let's take 'em up, Fred
We gotta take you higher
Uh, ow, alright
We gonna do it again
You wanna do it again, huh?
(Yeah, let's go on back)
We gotta takе you higher
Ha, uh, Fred, brother
(Yеah?)
Now I want everybody to let Fred blow about two choruses
And then I'm gonna wave you in, let's go into what we did just now, alright?
(Alright! Yeah! Alright, alright!)
I wanna get that fella with the little horn over there
He done changed horns on me
Fred, can you take us higher
(Yeah)
Take us higher (Alright)
Fred, Fred, Fred

[Fred Wesley trombone solo]

(Fred, Fred) Give up the line of Uncle Fred
Yeah, Lord
You know what?
When I hear a groove like this groove
Oh, it say I got to take you higher
Yeah, baby, yeah, yeah
Like way up yonder, man
High, and things, haha, and things
Looka here
Someone got a groove like this
You know, you know, know
I need the grit, got the grit
Gonna eat, got the grit
Get the job, got the job
Need the grit, got the grit
Now, Fred, you know, I believe
Hey, Fred Thomas, brother
I'm getting ready to wave y'all in
You know what?
I feel so down, I need to get down
In order for me to get down, I gotta get in D
(Go on, get down, yeah)
In order for me to get down, I gotta get in D
Need to get in D
Dog the D, down D
Funky D, shaking D
Down D (Down D)
[Band changes key from F to D]

Oh, wow, uh, haha, ha
Get on down
Martin laughed, you like D
That make him think about Macon, The Big M
Ah, look here, look at that
This you over there?
(Who is that cat?)
You better sing one verse for us
What we gotta do?

We gotta have a funky good time, oh yeah
We gotta have a funky good time, oh yeah
Gotta have a funky good time
I didn't know you were singing, Fred
(I'm moanin')
We gotta have a funky good time
Don't moan so much, brother, don't moan so much
We gotta have a funky good time
Take 'em up then
We gotta take you higher

Wait a minute
Now who you say that was over there?
(I don't know. Mangey looking cat
I know that I seen him somewhere
Is that Maceo?)
He's doing everything over there
(Maceo?)
Is it who?
(Maceo. You know, like Maceo, won't you blow?)
Oh, yeah