作曲 : Mack Rice/Luther Ingram If you disrespect everybody That you run into How in the world do you think Anybody's supposed to respect you? If you don't give a heck About the man with the Bible in his hand Just get out the way And let the gentleman do his thing You're the kind of [?] Want everything your way Take the sheet off your face, boy It's a brand new day Respect yourself, respect yourself If you don't respect yourself Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot Respect yourself, respect yourself If you're walking 'round thinkin' That the world owes you something ' Cause you're [?] You goin' out the world backwards Like your day when you first come here You keep on talking 'bout the President You won't stop at pollution, no Put your hand on your mouth when you cough That'll help the solution Oh, you cuss around women For you don't even know their names, no And you're dumb enough to think That'll make you a big old man, oh Respect yourself, ah yeah You ought to respect yourself, yeah If you don't respect yourself Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot Respect yourself, respect yourself, yeah Respect yourself, yeah, respect yourself What's happening to the world, yeah? Nobody respects themselves You ought to respect your name You ought to respect yourself, respect yourself Respect yourself, respect yourself
作曲 : Mack Rice/Luther Ingram If you disrespect everybody That you run into How in the world do you think Anybody's supposed to respect you? If you don't give a heck About the man with the Bible in his hand Just get out the way And let the gentleman do his thing You're the kind of [?] Want everything your way Take the sheet off your face, boy It's a brand new day Respect yourself, respect yourself If you don't respect yourself Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot Respect yourself, respect yourself If you're walking 'round thinkin' That the world owes you something ' Cause you're [?] You goin' out the world backwards Like your day when you first come here You keep on talking 'bout the President You won't stop at pollution, no Put your hand on your mouth when you cough That'll help the solution Oh, you cuss around women For you don't even know their names, no And you're dumb enough to think That'll make you a big old man, oh Respect yourself, ah yeah You ought to respect yourself, yeah If you don't respect yourself Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot Respect yourself, respect yourself, yeah Respect yourself, yeah, respect yourself What's happening to the world, yeah? Nobody respects themselves You ought to respect your name You ought to respect yourself, respect yourself Respect yourself, respect yourself
