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To Be Young, Gifted & Black (Live at The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA)
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Donny Hathaway
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This is dedicated to who it may concern To be young, gifted, and Black Oh, what a lovely precious dream To be young, gifted, and Black Open your heart to what I mean, to what I mean 'Cause you know In this whole wide world, whole wide world There's a million, a million boys and girls Who are young, gifted, gifted, and Black And that's a fact, yes, it is To be young, gifted, and Black We must begin to tell our young Didn't you know that there was a whole world Whole world waiting for you Haven't you heard that the quest has just begun, yeah, yeah Didn't you know that the joy, the joy, the joy of the today, yeah Will be the day that we all, that we all be proud to say That we're young, gifted, gifted and Black It's sho'nuff where it's at, yeah Oh, I wish I could this evening Do you believe me out there? I said it's over, oh honey See if I can prove that, y'all, yeah Can I get me a voice to sing this for me right here? This world's intact, yeah Can I get me another voice to sing this for me? This world's intact, oh yeah Men, can I get you to sing this for me right now? Uh-huh, yeah This world's intact Can I get everybody to sing together right now? 'Cause it's sho'nuff, yes, it is (This world's intact) Yeah, yeah I ain't tryna play out nobody else but I know it's sho'nuff, yes, it is (This world's intact) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah It's sho'nuff, yeah (This world's intact) Can I get you to stand on your feet? Stand up, sho'nuff (This world's intact) Oh yeah, I know it's sho'nuff, hey, hey, hey, hey It's sho'nuff, sho'nuff, sho'nuff, sho'nuff, sho'nuff, sho'nuff, sho'nuff Sho', sho'nuff where it's at, yeah Yeah, yeah
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