Chi-Lites, The - (For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People Lyrics
For God's sake, you got to give more power to the people
There's some people up there hoggin' everything
Tellin' lies, givin' alibis about the peoples money and things
And if they gonna throw it away, might as well give some to me
There are some people who are starvin' to death
Never knew but only hate us, and they never had happiness
Ohoho, if you don't have enough to eat, how can you think of love?
You don't have the time to care so it's crime you're guilty of, oh yeah
For God's sake, you got to give more power to the people
For God's sake, why don't you give more power to the people?
Cut this jive and see who's got the power to kill the most
They know were not satisfied, so we begin to holler
Makin' us a promise and throwin' a few more dollars
There's no price for happiness, there's no price for love
Up goes the price of livin', and you're right back where you was
So whatever you got, just be glad you got it
Now we're gonna get on up and get some more of it, oh yeah
For God's sake, you got to give more power to the people
For God's sake, why don't you give more power to the people?
For God's sake, you got to give more power to the people
For God's sake, why don't you give more power to the people?
For God's sake, you got to give more power to the people
For God's sake, why don't you give more power to the people?
For God's sake, you got to have it, more power
For God's sake, you got to have it, more power
For God's sake, you got to give more power to the people
For God's sake, why don't you give more power to the people?
For God's sake, you got to give more power to the people
For God's sake, why don't you give more power to the people?
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Chi-Lites, The (For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People Comments
2020 VOTE
Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Bunchy Carter, Elaine Brown, Erika Huggins, Kathleen Cleaver, Assata Shakur, and Afeni Shakur are the personification of this song ✊✊✊
я тащюсь.. от подобного музла..кайфово
That Moog Synthesizer intro is dope!
Listen to this POTUS.
Original Gangstas brought me here
✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Blinding tune. More power to y'all
TUPAC MOMS WAS BAD ASS IN NYC IN THESE DAYS
This a great song for 2019 they should be playing this now🐼
Cui bono brothers ? That's a very old question . And a still an oldie but goodie .
Stand up if you was there!!! Power to the people!!!!
Original Gangsters brought me here
Beautiful ❤❤
Happy May Day!
Creadel " RED" Jones my uncle we miss you
I loved his parts!!! I was 12 years old trying to sing like him!
Impeach Trump!!!!
Krystal Mattella, unfortunately the people don’t have the power...Faux news has the power and influences so many to vote against their own long term interest.
This puts THE BOOGIE in THE WOOGIE Played this as BOSS HITBOUND in 1970.Totally different from HAVE YOU SEEN HER and OH GIRL,What a Power Hit!
This is my number one driving song.
Power to the bass singer rest in peace
All Power to the People
YES WERE IN AH RESSION RIGHT NOW!!!!
The turbulent 1960s brought me here. Not much has changed since then
This intro is crazy!
that band was driving hard on this track here
wow this was great music! and then mumble rap showed up
My childhood brought me here..
Power to the oppressed
This was one of the anthems of my generation. It is our anthem now..We will fight this evil power and defeat it by any means necessary. All power to the people.
Love this .
This must be one of the best intros to a record ever!!
Yes Sir
Thumbs up if yawl thought Sly Family Stone made this.
Temptations influence was ERRYwhere back then.....Killer track!!!
and THE FAMILY STONE
original gangstas brought me here
Introducing the baddest mothafucka ever!
Ungawa!
still resonates today 46 years later the rich still gettin richer the poor is still gettin more poorer
✊✊✊✊🙏🙏🙏 Love your Melanin! This is 4 US! THE MOST HIGH CALLS FOR U AND I TO DO HIS WILL!! (UNITE)!!!! 👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑
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power to the people black is beautiful
Praise to the Most High! Yah!
Yes it is
a true classic
Up goes the cost of livin' and you're right back where you were!
At first I were suppose to be voting thinking I was voting for Hillary Rodium
Clinton as the President, only it turns out Donald Trump Elect, ending up wining anyway.
HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE FED WITH FISH AND BREAD?? 1 WORLD ITS ABOUT SURVIVING IN A WORLD WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT A COST.
The Chi-Lites. 'Nuff said. Timeless song. NGO...Never Gets Old. Thanks for the upload, AuntieSoul34. Blessings
Funny how this song still applies to today's problems. Should be played once a week all over the WORLD, not just the good old USA!
for Gods sake give more power to people.....
Vote for Kasich in the primaries!
vote hillary Clinton in the primary
Right On!
Donald trump suck
VOTE BERNIE SANDERS IN THE PRIMARIES!!
Bernie supporters fucked up the flow and caused this 'RAT-NAH bullshit !
Bernie sucks. Trump 2020
i love it !!!💞💞💞 the chi lites this dose is dope yeah you guys took me there
For God's sake, more power to the people!
They just used this cut on The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution on PBS. Next to Isley's Fight the Power! this is the cut!
Yes!!! I got my 8 year old walking around singing it ✊🏾
+kierredestiny2 Lovely !!
They used it in Panther the movie also.
Thats where i heard it and i shazammed it haha
Now this is the type of song to be driving in your big Impala, Newport, LTD, whatever through NYC's mad boroughs down the Clearview Expressway, Bruckner Expressway, Long Island Expressway west of Long Island, all of L.I. and N.Y.C. Parkways, .....
Hugely underrated and under appreciated song. While this album's biggest single "Have You Seen Her" was obviously a huge hit, this song never got the same level of attention. Hell, it wasn't even released as a single. Go figure... (shakes head).
+trilogypart3 My mother had bought the 45rpm where we live in NJ
It was released as a single and was a huge hit, too.
+trilogypart3 By far that is true. This song was released as a single but stopped at #26 in 1971 and was overshadowed by their softer numbers.
It was the Chi-Lites first single, and I still remember hearing it all the time on the radio.
FUNK AND REVOLUTION...WE NEED THIS NOW!!!!!!!
Amen baby more power to you ✌️✊
Right now!
So true! !!
P.P.H. & Co., Inc.
Clinical pyscology for public relations. P.R.
Bell Laboratory / cellphone . . .
good band,must say I hadn't heard this track before,excellent.
do anyone remember the movie the SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR white folks got so upset when that flick came out . They ban it in lots of the movie houses a few folks my age never heard of it
+saptech213 It was an even more amazing book. I watched it on DVD with my parents back in college, but even then the footage was a bit shaky. I recommend it to anyone I can because the book was that good.
the footage was shaky due to it being a low budget movie. Just getting it made into a movie back then was a big feat!
I saw the movie and read the book. it's a good read.
That's only because nobody wants a spook by their door
I REMEMBER SEEING IT AT THE MOVIES THEATER
As I punch out of work today and give my boss the finger , I'll be singing this song..
This is the true song of change !!! Power To The People !!!
what a dope tune!
Undeniably dope
this song is definitely influenced by the sly & the family song "sing a simple song". especially the intro and the interchangeable vocals.
I've thought they were Sly And The Family Stone.
Also influenced by the psychedelic Temptations
right on! I first heard this on the NBC mini-series "The '70s".
Fuck you Fred Quinn.
more power to the people movement songs of the 60's and 70's gets me fired up all over again.
we gotta start blasting them from the windows again.
Absolutely!
Do you know any more? Or a playlist on youtube i can listen to to find more?
Malik el-shabazz (brotha malcom X)✊👊
I love this 1971 Chi-Lites hit, which peaked @ #26 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart!
R.I.P., Eugene Record.
Heerlijke muziek ,lekkere soul ....
Now we really got him started! LOL
From italy watching The wire 4x01!!!
great sound!!
ROFLCTFU WOW THAT'S crazy Tony LOL
I think this is my most favourite of the chi lites!
Means just as much today as it did back then, moreso--and it funks the message
Nice Love This Song ~ Thanks AuntieSoul34 ~ Peace Carmen ~
This song could have been made Oct 28, 2012, listen to the harmony, Credell Jones was one of the best bass singers of all time. First saw them in 1968 at the Howard Theater in DC when the Chicago Revue came to town on that show was the Headliner Gene Chandler, Chilites, Barbara Acklin who later married Eugene Record lead singer of the Chilites, Lee Charles, Artistics, what a great show.
i would have paid mad money to witness that event...knowing and loving this song the same way, i would have been laughing my ass off, too!
I'll never forget this song as long as I live. The jukebox in my stepdad's cafe had just been refilled. I decided to play this tune (loved the Chi-lites). His juke was very loud....and the cafe full of old people (you know over 35). When the song started these IDIOTS thought it was an air raid siren and started going in full panic...(in the 60's btw). Watching these fools start scrambling and getting all worked up is still the funniest thing I've ever witnessed.
A great song by The Chi-Lites! This was a featured track on "American Top 40 - The '70s" (from May 29th, 1971), & was the #26 song.
R.I.P., Eugene Record.
ChihuahuaboyDH That was my 7th birthday!
I remember riding in my father's all black Ford LTD with him cranking this this on hi 8-track. LOL! If nothing else we had some great music from some dynamite groups from that era.
soulful classick 4 sure! hott damn! 1st 20 seconds .. take flight vibes!