Share this song
Tweet this song
Wikipedia search
Musicbrainz DB;){kind=link}
If you disrespect anybody that you run in to
How in the world do you think anybody's s'posed to respect you
If you don't give a heck 'bout the man with the bible in his hand, y'all
Just get out the way, and let the gentleman do his thing
You the kind of gentleman that want everything your way, yeah
Take the sheet off your face, boy, it's a brand new day
Respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself
If you don't respect yourself
Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot, na na na na
Respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself
If you're walking 'round think'n that the world owes you something 'cause you're here
You goin' out the world backwards like you did when you first come here yeah
Keep talkin' bout the president, won't stop air pollution
Put your hand on your mouth when you cough, that'll help the solution
Oh, you cuss around women and you don't even know their names, no
Then you're dumb enough to think that'll make you a big ol' man
Respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself
If you don't respect yourself
Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot, na na na na
Respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself
Respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself
Respect yourself, yeah yeah respect yourself, respect yourself yeah, respect yourself
You oughta you oughta respect yourself yeah, respect yourself
How in the world do you think anybody's s'posed to respect you
If you don't give a heck 'bout the man with the bible in his hand, y'all
Just get out the way, and let the gentleman do his thing
You the kind of gentleman that want everything your way, yeah
Take the sheet off your face, boy, it's a brand new day
Respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself
If you don't respect yourself
Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot, na na na na
Respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself
If you're walking 'round think'n that the world owes you something 'cause you're here
You goin' out the world backwards like you did when you first come here yeah
Keep talkin' bout the president, won't stop air pollution
Put your hand on your mouth when you cough, that'll help the solution
Oh, you cuss around women and you don't even know their names, no
Then you're dumb enough to think that'll make you a big ol' man
Respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself
If you don't respect yourself
Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot, na na na na
Respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself
Respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself
Respect yourself, yeah yeah respect yourself, respect yourself yeah, respect yourself
You oughta you oughta respect yourself yeah, respect yourself
| clwguy | Posted: May 25, 2013 - 07:51 One of those things that gets better with age... not that it was bad when it was just young grapes... or maybe it was me who was the young grape  |
| Lichenia, | Posted: Mar 23, 2013 - 12:13 Yeah, the seventies B-) |
| Zep | Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 16:15 bchartier wrote: Bruce Willis ruined this for me. Zed's dead, baby. |
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 16:11 Oh yea!!!  |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 13:51 just git out the way boy, and let the gentleman do his thing wolfkiss wrote: There is no relationship between carrying a bible and deserving respect from oneself, let alone others. |
| btt (firmly ensconsed in the Beautiful B.C Interior) | Posted: Mar 10, 2012 - 09:35 Well , I , for one , do give a good cahoot . So there . |
| wolfkiss | Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 16:27 There is no relationship between carrying a bible and deserving respect from oneself, let alone others. |
| kcar | Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 21:37 bchartier wrote: daveshel4 wrote:Bruce Willis ruined this for me. I was just thinking the same thing. Damn him. Not to add to your pain, but I think this is pretty sacrilegious: his version is on a "Best of Motown in the 80s" anthology: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/20th-century-masters-the-millennium/id3575567 You also have to ding Bruce for being in so many dumb action movies where he bellows "NOOOO!" at least once. I think that line's in his contract. |
| citybiker (Chicago) | Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 11:31 I have a Bruce Willis cover of this on a 45. Almost as good. |
| daveshel4 (Seattle) | Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 11:30 bchartier wrote: Bruce Willis ruined this for me. I was just thinking the same thing. Damn him. |
| Businessgypsy (Deepest, Darkest Florida) | Posted: Jul 01, 2011 - 16:39 WonderLizard wrote: The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section: Barry Beckett, Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson Drive-By Truckers founder Patterson Hood is David's son, the song continues... |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 21:18 cc_rider wrote: Buncha white dudes, if you can believe it. From North Alabama to Motown, those cats have quite a story.  The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section: Barry Beckett, Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson   |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Sep 20, 2010 - 17:47 tompoll wrote: We get to see Mavis in a small place here in Seattle in late October. Should be wonderful! Coolness! I think wilco is in order now, since JT produced Mavis' new LP!! |
| tompoll (Seattle WA USA) | Posted: Sep 20, 2010 - 17:39 We get to see Mavis in a small place here in Seattle in late October. Should be wonderful! |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 08:50 cc_rider wrote: 'twas a joke. Referencing another RP thread. Sorry! I sit corrected. . . |
| cc_rider (Austin Texas. Y'all.) | Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 08:27 vandal wrote: Slap yourself! This isn't a "Christian" song. . . its an R&B icon. . .  |
| pannaramma (here and there) | Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 08:26 sandpebble wrote: Much better than the Office Depot Singers!  ...........................................sorryIt's OK. I laughed. |
| cc_rider (Austin Texas. Y'all.) | Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 08:26 bchartier wrote: Bruce Willis ruined this for me. Who? |
| cc_rider (Austin Texas. Y'all.) | Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 08:25 RParadise wrote: Except they were never with Motown. They were in Memphis, with Stax. That's the Muscle Shoals studio band backing this track. Buncha white dudes, if you can believe it. From North Alabama to Motown, those cats have quite a story. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 08:25 morgsy67 wrote: OH MY GAWD!!! Another Christian song on RP!!!! Slap yourself! This isn't a "Christian" song. . . its an R&B icon. . . |
| nalle (Malmo, Sweden) | Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 08:24 Respect! |
| sandpebble (near Paradise) | Posted: Mar 13, 2010 - 17:35 Much better than the Office Depot Singers! ...........................................sorry |
| etcarroll (stuck among the Amish) | Posted: Feb 10, 2010 - 04:18 And backing them STRONG, if I may say! RParadise wrote: Except they were never with Motown. They were in Memphis, with Stax. That's the Muscle Shoals studio band backing this track. |
| Stefen (West Hollywood, CA) | Posted: Jan 09, 2010 - 17:35 bchartier wrote: Bruce Willis ruined this for me. Huh? |
| bchartier (Toronto, Ontario Canada) | Posted: Dec 09, 2009 - 08:58 Bruce Willis ruined this for me. |
| RParadise (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY) | Posted: Oct 07, 2009 - 11:01 Shesdifferent wrote: Yeah! Love that your playing this! Motown forever! Good choice! Except they were never with Motown. They were in Memphis, with Stax. That's the Muscle Shoals studio band backing this track. |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Oct 07, 2009 - 11:01 cstetler wrote: We love the Staple Singers here at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music!! Come Visit!!! I have visited, and your house ROCKS! Got a 50th anniversary CD set of Stax tunes, too, with over a dozen killer tunes. Great slice of history next door to Beale Street and the Gibson factory/museum. |
| Bleyfusz | Posted: Oct 07, 2009 - 10:47 oilydwarf wrote: Love it!!! Yikes! My favourite self esteem anthem. |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet this is not my home) | Posted: Oct 07, 2009 - 10:46 redeyespy wrote: The real deal.  Yeah! Love that your playing this! Motown forever! Good choice! |
| newwavegurly | Posted: Oct 07, 2009 - 10:45 I've always thought that this would make a good pairing with ZZ Top's "Thank You"—there's something similar about the groove of the two of them to me. |
| rtrudeau (Bay Area, California) | Posted: Oct 07, 2009 - 10:45 jadedragon wrote: I am ancient...... remember listening to this on a transistor radio... Holy smokes! Your profile says you were born in 1901. You are ancient. |
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Jul 04, 2009 - 17:17 Two Staples Singers songs within 10 hours of one another? Did one of them die? |
| cstetler (Banks of Muddy Mississippi) | Posted: Jan 27, 2009 - 13:42 We love the Staple Singers here at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music!! Come Visit!!! |
| vivakitty (The Girl Who Wrecks Your Dreams) | Posted: Jan 27, 2009 - 13:40 Weird - second Staple Singers song of the day. And it's two songs after the second TV on the Radio song for the day. |
| oilydwarf | Posted: Nov 25, 2008 - 08:53 Love it!!! |
| jadedragon (in the Brady basement) | Posted: Oct 24, 2008 - 19:44 I am ancient...... remember listening to this on a transistor radio... |
| cutterjudd (smackdabinthemiddle) | Posted: Oct 24, 2008 - 19:42 Rock the Fricken House............. |
| ehudros | Posted: Sep 23, 2008 - 04:19 what a horrible song... |
| steve_san_carlos (Ummm...San Carlos, California!) | Posted: Aug 22, 2008 - 15:01 RP at its best is mixing in tasty R&B singles like this. I miss the real deal of free-form commercial radio, like WBCN in Boston back in the mid-70s. Yes, I was a pre-pubescent punk, but I remember it well. |
| Ahnyer_Keester (Chicago Il) | Posted: Jun 20, 2008 - 10:33 That rocked!! Bruce Willis' version in the 80s wasn't bad either come to think of it. |
| Krispian (Vancouver, BC) | Posted: Jun 20, 2008 - 10:31 This song kicks *ss! Something about the phrasing/sound & rhythm of the keyboards reminds me of Donald Fagen. I wonder if they influenced him? |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Apr 18, 2008 - 13:15 Very interesting...Thanks for that.Ag3nt0rang3 wrote: |
| Ag3nt0rang3 | Posted: Apr 18, 2008 - 13:10 Gregorama wrote: AMG says that Pops passed away in December 2000 @age 85. What a loss. RIP Papa Legba! You might want to be careful, when invoking Papa Legba. |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Apr 18, 2008 - 13:05 NICE long version.. |
| musikalia (Somewhere (over the rainbow)) | Posted: Feb 15, 2008 - 13:35 TheLoneIguana wrote: Somebody did a cover of the Bruce Willis song?
hehe  |
| cc_rider (Austin Texas. Y'all.) | Posted: Feb 15, 2008 - 13:35 TheLoneIguana wrote: Somebody did a cover of the Bruce Willis song?
I saw Mavis Staples at a show recently. Short set (~1 hr) but still amazing. Yeah, she played last year at the local Paramount Theater's 91st Anniversary. Short set, but DANG she rocked the place! Git down! c. |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, and land of the vague) | Posted: Nov 13, 2007 - 07:01 morgsy67 wrote: OH MY GAWD!!!
Only Christians have self respect?
Another Christian song on RP!!!! I didn't know that! |
| eastcoast | Posted: Nov 13, 2007 - 07:00 Gawd forbid! morgsy67 wrote: OH MY GAWD!!!
Another Christian song on RP!!!! |
| morgsy67 (Cape Cod, MA) | Posted: Nov 13, 2007 - 06:59 OH MY GAWD!!! Another Christian song on RP!!!! |
| cutterjudd (smackdabinthemiddle) | Posted: Sep 11, 2007 - 11:41 "put your hand over your mouth when you cough, that will help the solution" This is one of my all time "get down" songs.       |