sometimes the going gets a little bit tough now when the times get hard and the friends get few now no one to turn to and nothing to do now you re screaming your heart out til your back and is soaking wet now you re still looking for mercy and still you can t forget now screaming your heart out your back gets soaking wet you know that you used to love him and still you can t forget you know sometimes it s hard nowhere to go no one to love tried everything you know haaa baby and ahhh baby and ahhh baby i want you to play i want you to play a little song you know a friend of mine told me one time i think it was back in 1959 he said darling you send me he said if you call me i ll come running back to you and another friend of mine told me he said if you need me call me you see i got a lot of friends in my business and another friend of mine he told me you better stop dogging me around now and a recent friend of mine he came up and you know what he said it s too late another friend of mine in a group i m talking bout bobby boy now he said a young man sings his heart out he walked up he said james i had so much trials and tribulations but i found out now and you see another friend of mine he told me he called me bishop he said james you was born to lose i wouldn t take that for an answer i went on down the street i said to myself i said james brown please please please please come along someone now aaaah baby aaaah baby i m gonna call a friend of mine in a band now i want him to come up and testify now i want you to blow i want you to blow for the people who need someone to love now i want you to blow for the people who don t have no one to love i want you to blow for somebody that i lost long time ago i want him to blow better than on anybody s record now i want you to blow for yourself one time aaaah baby aaaah baby aaaah baby i think i m gonna scream a little louder and maybe you ll come on home now ow oh baby aaaah baby aaaah baby