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Artist: James Brown
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The Payback
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The Payback
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Hey! gotta gotta pay back!! (the big payback)
Revenge!! i'm mad (the big payback)
Got to get back! need some get back!! pay back! (the big
Payback)
That's it!! payback!!! revenge!!!
I'm mad!!
Get down with my girlfriend, that ain't right!!
Hollarin' cussin', you wanna fight
Payback is a thing you gotta see
Brother do any damn thing to me
Sold me out, for chump change (yes you did!!)
Told me that they, they had it all arranged
You handed me down, and thats a fact
Now you're pumped, you gotta get ready for the big payback!!
(the big
Payback!!)
That's where i am, the big payback (the big payback!!)
I can do wheelin', i can do dealin' (yes you can!!) but i don't
Do no damn
Squealin'
I can dig rappin', i'm ready!! i can dig scrappin'
But i can't dig that backstabbin' (oh no!!)
The brother get ready!! thats a fact!!
Get ready you mother, for the big payback (the big payback!!)
Let me hit 'em hit'em!! hey hey!! woooooooooooo!
Took my money, you got my honey
Don't want me to see what you doing to me
I got to get back i gotta deal with you!! (4xs) hey let me tell
Ya!!
Get down with my woman, that ain't right! you hollarin' and
Cussin', you wanna
Fight!!
Don't do me no darn favor,
I don't know karate, but i know ka-razy!!!! (yes we do!!)
Get ready thats a fact, get ready you mother for the big payback
(the big
Payback!)
Hey!! i'm a man! i'm a man! i'm a son of a man, but don't they
Tell ya then
Hop again
Get ready for the big payback (the big payback!!) hit 'em
Again!!
Get ready i need it, i need a hit again!! say it once (3xs) hit
'em
Again!!
(the big payback!!) sold me out for chump change
Said my woman had it all arranged
Tryin' to make a deal, she wants to squeal but i had my boys on
Her heals
Saw me comin', told a lie went down like you wanted to cry
I don't care what she does, she'll be doin' just like she was
Take your kids and raise them up, somebody think i have a right
To be tough
Take her, take that woman, it's one place she found
Just run that mother out of town!!
Got to get up!! got to get up, get out!! (2xs)
I'm mad!! i want revenge, i want revenge (the big payback!!) i
Want revenge
(3xs)
(the big payback!!) give me those hits!! i want some hits!! i
Need those
Hits, hit me!!
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