If You Don’t Give a Doggone About It James Brown

[Intro]
Hey, fellas!
Sometimes your business is all messed up, yeah!
…sometimes you don't have your thing together, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
…and when your thing is all messed up… somebody will take that fire, yeah!
Sooooo
If you

[Chorus]
Don't give
A doggone about it…!
If (if you…) you don't give… (say it, now…)
A doggone about it…! (say it…)
If you don't give…
A doggone about it…! (say it!)
(if you don't give…)
(A doggone about it…)
Then they—!
They won't give a damn!

[Chorus]
If you don't give…
A doggone about it…!
If you don't give… (hey, yeah…)
A doggone about it…!
(say it!) if you don't give…
A doggone about it…
Then they—!
They won't give a damn!
Sit down!