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LIFETHE NEGRO AND THE CITIESThe Cry That Will Be HeardMarch 8, 1968 35 WHY NOT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOUR FELLOW MANGIVE A DAMNPut your girl to sleep some time with rats instead of nursery rhymes with hunger and your other children by her side And wonder if you'll share your bed with something else that must be fed for fear may lie beside you or it may sleep down the hall and it might begin to teach you how to give a damn about your fellow man and it might begin to teach you how to give a damn about your fellow man. Come and see how well despair is seasoned by the stiffling air see a ghetto in the good old sizzling summertime suppose as the streets were all on fire the flames like tempers leaping higher suppose you lived there all you life do you think that you would mind and it might begin to reach you why we give a damn about our fellow man and it might begin to teach you how to give a damn about your fellow man and it might begin to reach you why we give a damn. If you'd take the train with me uptown through the misery of ghetto streets in morning light there's always night.Take a window seat put down your times you can read between the lines just meet the faces that you meet beyond the window's pane and it might begin to teach you how to give a damn about your fellow man and it might begin to teach you how to give a damn about your fellow man and it might begin to teach you how to give a damn about your fellow man.FOR (W.E.L.)(As recorded by Spanky & Our Gang/ Mercury) SCHARF