(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go (Radio edit)
Curtis Mayfield
Track 17 on Curtis (Expanded Edition)
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(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go (Radio edit) Lyrics
Sisters, brothers and the whities
Blacks and the crackers
Police and their backers
They're all political actors
Hurry
People running from their worries
While the judge and his juries
Dictate the law that's partly flaw
Cat calling, love balling, fussing and cussing
Top billing now is killing
For peace no-one is willing
Kind of make you get that feeling
Everybody smoke
Use the pill and the dope
Educated fools
From uneducated schools
Pimping people is the rule
Polluted water in the pool
And Nixon talking about don't worry
He says don't worry
He says don't worry
He says don't worry
But they don't know
There can be no show
And if there's hell below
We're all gonna go
Blacks and the crackers
Police and their backers
They're all political actors
Hurry
People running from their worries
While the judge and his juries
Dictate the law that's partly flaw
Cat calling, love balling, fussing and cussing
Top billing now is killing
For peace no-one is willing
Kind of make you get that feeling
Everybody smoke
Use the pill and the dope
Educated fools
From uneducated schools
Pimping people is the rule
Polluted water in the pool
And Nixon talking about don't worry
He says don't worry
He says don't worry
He says don't worry
But they don't know
There can be no show
And if there's hell below
We're all gonna go
Everybody's praying
And everybody's saying
But when come time to do
Everybody's laying
Just talking about don't worry
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
And everybody's saying
But when come time to do
Everybody's laying
Just talking about don't worry
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
About
Genius Annotation
“(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go” was released in November 1970 as the first, and only charting single off of Curtis' debut album Curtis, hereby being his first (charting) single. The single was released with as B-side the song “The Makings of You”.
The song was meant to serve as a warning regarding the state of race relations and the tempest growing in America’s inner cities.
This version lacks the references to the Book of Revelation, and Mayfield’s spoken intro, which
D12 would later scratch in some vocals which are only included on the full version on the hook of “That’s How…” off their album Devil’s Night
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- 13.Suffer (Demo)
- 14.Miss Black America (Demo Version) (Missing Lyrics)
- 15.The Makings of You (Backing Track, Take 32) (Missing Lyrics)
- 16.(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below We’re All Going to Go [Backing Track, Take 1 & 2] (Missing Lyrics)
- 17.(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go (Radio edit)
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1970
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