Long as You're Living
Abbey Lincoln

(I)

FORGIVE ME IF I SEEM TO PREACH - BUT THERE IS SOMETHING THAT I WANT TO SAY

A MESSAGE THAT I HOPE WILL REACH - PEOPLE WHO ARE THROWING LIFE AWAY

I CALL IT MY PHILOSOPHY - THAT IS WHY I PASS IT ON TO YOU

BECAUSE IT WORKS SO WELL FOR ME - IT HELPS ME GET AWAY FROM STRIFE

I HOPE YOU LISTEN CAREFULLY - THEY SAY THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE

AND THAT'S THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE - 'CAUSE BROTHER THIS IS YOUR LIFE

(II)

LONG AS YOU'RE LIVIN' - ALWAYS REMEMBER

TIME IS FOR SPENDIN' - BUT THERE'S AN ENDING

WHILE YOU ARE SLEEPIN' - LIFETIME IS CREEPIN'

WAKE UP AND TASTE IT - FOOLISH TO WASTE IT

SAMPLE AND SAVOR - ALL OF IT'S FLAVOR

LONG AS YOU'RE LIVIN'......

(III)

LONG AS YOU'RE LIVIN' - ALWAYS REMEMBER

FOLKS WHO ARE LAZY - ARE PLAYING CRAZY

BETTER KEEP MOVIN' - KEEP ON IMPROVIN'

YOU WON'T BE HURRIED - AFTER YOU'RE BURIED

LIVE EVERY MINUTE - PUT YOURSELF IN IT

LONG AS YOU'RE LIVIN'.......

(IV)

LONG AS YOU'RE LIVIN' - ALWAYS REMEMBER

YOU'LL NEVER BEAT LIFE - DON'T TRY TO CHEAT LIFE

ALL IN ARE BROTHERS - DO UNTO OTHERS

LOVE'S FOR ENJOYING -HATE'S FOR DESTROYING

NEVER FORGET IT - OR YOU'LL REGRET IT

LONG AS YOUR LIVIN...

(V)

FORGIVE ME IF I SEEM TO PREACH - BUT THERE IS SOMETHING THAT I WANT TO SAY

A MESSAGE THAT I HOPE WILL REACH - PEOPLE WHO ARE THROWING LIFE AWAY

I CALL IT MY PHILOSOPHY - THAT IS WHY I PASS IT ON TO YOU

BECAUSE IT WORKS SO WELL FOR ME - IT HELPS ME GET AWAY FROM STRIFE

I HOPE YOU LISTEN CAREFULLY - THEY SAY THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE

AND THAT'S THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE - 'CAUSE BROTHER THIS IS YOUR LIFE


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Lyrics by Abbey Lincoln

  Afro-Blue   Ain't Nobody's Business   And How I Hoped for Your Love   And How I Hoped For Your Love   And It's Supposed to Be Love   Another World   Another World   Being Me   Being Me   Bird Alone   Bird Alone   Blue Monk   Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?   Brother, Where Are You?   Brother, Where Are You?   Caged Bird   Come Sunday   Don't Explain   Down Here Below   Down Here Below   Exactly Like You   First Song   For All We Know   For Heaven's Sake   Gimme a Pigfoot   Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)   God Bless the Child   Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe   Hey, Lordy Mama   Hey, Lordy Mama   How High the Moon (La Lune Est Grise...Mon Coeur A...   I Concentrate on You   I Concentrate On You   I Concentrate on You [Instrumental]   I Must Have That Man!   I Must Have That Man! [Take 3, Alternate]   I Must Have That Man! [Take 3]   I Only Have Eyes for You   I'll Be Seeing You   I'll Wind   I'm in Love   If I Only Had a Brain   Ill Wind   It's Magic   It's Me, O' Lord (Standin' in the Need of Prayer)   Laugh, Clown, Laugh   Learning How to Listen   Live for Life   Lonely House   Lost in the Stars   Love Has Gone Away   Love Walked In   Lucky to Be Me   My Love Is You   My Love Is You   My Man   Nature Boy   Nature Boy   Not To Worry   Not to Worry   Please Don't Talk About Me (When I'm Gone)   Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone   Runnin' Wild   Should've Been   Should've Been   Skylark   Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise   Strange Fruit   Street of Dreams   Strong Man   Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams   Take Me in Your Arms   Ten Cents a Dance   Tender as a Rose   Tender As A Rose   The Merry Dancer   The Music Is the Magic   The Windmills of Your Mind   The World Is Falling Down   These Foolish Things   Throw It Away   Throw It Away   What a Little Moonlight Can Do   When a Woman Loves a Man   When I'm Called Home   Whistling Away the Dark   Wholly Earth   Windmills of Your Mind   You and I   You Must Believe in Spring and Love

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