Don't Be A Dropout Lyrics - James Brown

Now a good friend of mine 

Sat with me and he cried 

He told me a story 

I know he ain't lying 

Said he went for a job 

And Mr. Man said 

Without an education 

You might as well be dead 

Now don't get me wrong 

He said, it's not who you are 

But people come to me 

From near and far 

But I do just what 

And I follow the rules 

I didn't have an education 

So I had to go back to school 

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Tell me one more time, people now 

What do you say? 

Without an education 

You might as well be dead 

One more time 

What do you say? 

Without an education 

You might as well be dead 

My friends told all his buddies 

That he loved so well 

And of their personal troubles 

I will not tell 

Now those guys didn't seem good 

And they didn't seem bad 

They didn't seem so happy 

And I know they weren't sad 

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But the point isn't 

That they follow the rules 

They got an education 

And they all been in school 

Now underneath his tears 

I could see the true fact 

When he dropped out of school 

He never, never went back 

Tell me one more time, people 

What do you say? 

Without an education 

You might as well be dead 

Got to, got to, got to listen now, now 

What do you say? 

Without an education 

Might as well be dead 

So one day he got tired 

Of his little spending change 

So he looked up his friends 

To check their pay range 

When he got there, the crib 

He found that he was a drag 

'Cause man, they were clean 

And his clothes were like rags 

One was a business man 

With the plenty of dough 

He had his thing so set up 

You know he couldn't blow 

The other had his job so uptight 

He had his whole family 

And his kids all out of sight 

Tell me one more time now 

What do you say? 

Without an education 

Might as well be dead 

You got to, got to, got to get a little learning 

What do you say? 

Without an education 

Might as well be dead 

What made him so hurt 

That these were his friends and he was a drag 

They looked at him 

And he was in the same old bag 

For his friends they worked real hard 

When the work day was through 

Now, he realized 

He should have done the same thing too 

Tell me one more time now 

What do you say? 

Without an education 

Might as well be dead 

You got to, got to, got to get a little learning now 

What do you say? 

Without an education 

Might as well be dead 

For the last time, I'm gonna say 

They kept on pushing 

When the going was tough 

And now they know 

That things don't seem so rough 

So kids, stay in school 

Don't be no drag 

Take a fool's advise 

And stay out of that bag 

Look here, tell me, Bobby tell me one more time 

What do you say? 

Without an education 

Might as well be dead 

Tell me, The Jewels, tell me now one more time 

What do you say? 

Without an education 

Might as well be dead 

Everybody, tell me one more time 

What do you say? 

Without an education 

Might as well be dead 

You got to, got to, got to, got to get some learning now 

What do you say? 

Without an education 

Might as well be dead 

Don't be a drop-out, stay in school now listen to me 

What do you say? 

Kids, kids 

Might as well be dead 

No, no 

What do you say? 

Without an education 

Might as well be dead 

Stay in school, have a good time 

What do you say? 

Don't, don't, don't ever blame 

Don't ever blame, don't ever blame, come on