James Brown - Mother Popcorn Lyrics






Yeah-yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah-yeah
Popcorn-yeah-yeah-yeah popcorn!
Some like 'em fat and some like 'em tall
Some like 'em short
Skinny legs and all
I like 'em tall
I like 'em proud
And when they walk
You know they draw a crowd!
See... you gotta have a mutha for me
Yeah-yeah-yeah ah come on!
A look-a-here!
There was a time when I was all alone
I had a secret thought I was gone
Somebody done me!
Said now I see
What you are doin', brother
To stay ahead of me
And when I get burndt ha! I use some salve
And when I want some lovin'
A mother she got to have
See - you got to have a mother for me
Yeah! Popcorn! Oh! uh!
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Yeah! Eee-yeah!
Do the popcorn hu!
Ooh!
Ooh!
Popcorn! uh!
Yeah-yeah-yeah
Look-a-here! ha! good Lord!
Hu! hu!
Look-a-here!
Do the popcorn and do the horse
Show everybody where you at!
You got-ta be boss
The way you do your little thing
Step in a small ring
And jump back baby!
James Brown gonna do his thing!
Popcorn! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Sometime sometime I'm feelin' low
Sometime I'm feelin' low
I call another brother
Talkin' about Maceo!
Maceo! blow your horn!
Don't talk no trash hu!
Play me some popcorn!
Maceo! Come On! uh!
Popcorn hu! ah!





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  1. �.... ....

    カッコいい★★★★★

  2. i.... ....

    Any baby baby. Sing it now James. Please got to have mother for me.

  3. L.... S....

    Thank the stars this video exists and thank you for uploading it. This is the most electric, deadly performance ever. James and the whole band astonish. They had to demolish the building because it got rocked too hard.

    Imagine any other artist at the time seeing this on TV.

    It's nice to see Maceo sounding so hot on tenor, I think of him as an alto guy.

  4. l.... e....

    lui c'est le malin qui l'a créée ! trop bon

  5. C.... S....

    Prince nicked a few lines from this one years later

  6. R.... B....

    Butane James was at his rawest here! Just grit, sweat, soul at its unbelievable, unfiltered best! And his high pitched screams was the cherry on top! Love this brutha!

  7. O.... 8....

    📻🎶

  8. m.... 1....

    best ever !!!!!!

  9. R.... H....

    JB demonstrated it's not what you say, it's (with all the soul and conviction) HOW you say it. If somebody asked me, "What is a Mother Popcorn?" I couldn't tell you. But I sure understand and dig this groove to death!!!

  10. t.... ....

    That smooth slide @2:30

  11. h.... d....

    That male nurse sure plays a mean sax!

  12. h.... d....

    They are deep in that groove!

  13. S.... S....

    James Brown is tha Godfather of Metal Screams

  14. D.... ....

    I love it,but James is not doing the "Popcorn" here. He is doing "The Funky Four Corners". The "Popcorn" dance was different.

  15. R.... A....

    JAMES WAS AN EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMER!

  16. F.... F....

    HOLEY MOLEY!!! I think I just had a funk-gasm all over my screen. This has got to be the funkiest 4 minutes of my life. Thank you James and Maceo.

  17. z.... ....

    That scream at 03:20, Jesus fucking Christ...

  18. C.... A....

    SE UM DIA ALGUM FUNKEIRO BRASILEIRO OUVIR ISSO, VAI DAR UM TIRO NA PRÓPRIA CABEÇA DE VERGONHA...

  19. J.... H....

    https://www.jimbojamz.com/besm/jb.mp3
    my personal tribute to James and foremost CLYDE "the world's most sampled drummer"
    www/jimbojamz.com/besm.html "blue eyed sou lman"

  20. M.... B....

    That rhythm section was tight, those horns cut through concrete.

  21. M.... B....

    Oof. What a badass mofo.

  22. M.... B....

    1:11 that bass was shredding

  23. K.... s....

    Maceo looks like he wanted to laugh so bad at the end, when James brown kept repeating himself, like what the hell is wrong with you James!!! Calm Down!!!🤣🤣🤣

  24. W.... B....

    This shit is bad, yo!

  25. 1.... ....

    My sweet happy childhood 1967

  26. B.... ....

    HAH!!! Mr Soulman!!! I can never get enough
    of you!!!!

  27. �.... ....

    Boodoo の聖人

  28. �.... ....

    神に1番近い異常者
    JB

  29. �.... ....

    米米 warの手本

  30. �.... ....

    頭がおかしい、との批判はあるだろう
    でも素晴らしい

  31. �.... ....

    ミカ・バンドの
    塀までひとっ飛び、は
    これを手本にしてる
    コード進行で考えないで作ってる
    理想

  32. �.... ....

    理論で考えない
    身体から湧き出る
    ダンス音楽の理想

  33. M.... 6....

    Good lort

  34. S.... ....

    All that tension builds up waiting for "the one" to release it. It almost drives you nuts to listen to some of his songs.

  35. T.... R....

    Here In 2019..

  36. s.... ....

    Happy Birthday wherever you are Mr Dynamite!

  37. R.... G....

    Mother Popcorn, Super Bad, Cold Sweat, Say it Loud, I Don’t Want Nobody(Get it Myself), Get up, Get into it, Get involved, SexMachine, I Got the Feeling.....and the ballad “ I Lost Someone”

  38. �.... C....

    Awsome Video

  39. M.... E....

    I can't believe what i just witnessed - Incredible!!

    M.... E....

    mee either

  40. S.... ....

    More soul than a shoe shop.

    S.... ....

    stone funk genius

  41. M.... G....

    FUUUUUUUUCK,,Chris Brown you be Lucky to lite JB cigarettes 🔥🔥💯

  42. D.... B....

    I asked Google Assistant to make me some popcorn and this is what she gave me.

  43. E.... ....

    Man you just can't say enough cool stuff about James Brown and his bands....

  44. z.... z....

    wow rhis is the real baaaadasss raw sht!!!

  45. p.... p....

    Hey funky 4 corners (i can still do that AFTER a rub down with ben gay) 😁

    p.... p....

    You good

  46. R.... A....

    Hot damn!

  47. J.... J....

    Amazing 🔥

  48. M.... R....

    Where's the Butter?

  49. W.... ....

    *he sure had bad ass moves😍*

  50. D.... B....

    WHAT AN INCREDIBLE LEGEND!

  51. m.... t....

    I tried to scream like James and I cant do it.

  52. J.... s....

    🔴 Maceo Maceo !!! 🔴

  53. P.... ....

    This was a very interesting performance for a few reasons. He didn’t perform with the mic stand as he normally did, and then danced in between lyrics, he sang with a loose mic, and danced throughout the whole song. I wonder who’s idea that was, the producers or his? And the second thing is in the middle of the song the band briefly went into the opening of I DON’T WANT NOBODY TO GIVE ME NOTHING, then right back into MOTHER POPCORN!

  54. w.... t....

    SITTING DOWN AND FUNKIN!!!!!

  55. T.... M....

    das it right dey

  56. B.... B....

    The real funk master and godfather of soul Mr. James Brown & Bobby Byrd can you dig it

  57. K.... A....

    Super bad brother

  58. J.... B....

    This song is stuck inside my soul......
    and it feels pretty good....

  59. C.... J....

    There was 666 comments so i just needed to add one

  60. N.... 4....

    Only Mr. Brown could have written:
    "When I get burnt
    , I use salve
    And when I want lovin'
    , mothers you got to have
    You see -- you got to have a mother for me"

  61. A.... M....

    Lord have mercy! James Brown & his band could boil a cup of water from 10 feet away with their funky nuclear soul-powered dance music. Talent & arrangements that blew all our minds back in the day...

  62. �.... ....

    JBのShout
    現代音楽のバイオリン独奏よりも身体から沸き上がる

  63. �.... ....

    音楽理論はJBに平伏す

  64. �.... ....

    Ivesよりも好き
    ダンサブル

  65. �.... ....

    ブードゥー教の儀式みたい
    カッコいい

  66. �.... ....

    マイケルが雑魚に見える

  67. �.... ....

    JBは
    神に1番近い愚民
    身体から沸き上がる音楽

  68. �.... ....

    アメリカ音楽の最高傑作
    これを越えたアメリカ音楽はまだ無い

  69. H.... H....

    Maceo one of the funkiest saxophone player that ever played.

  70. D.... M....

    LOOK AT THOSE LEGS & WATCH THOSE FEET!!! The Godfather was/is the 8th Wonder of the World! LONG LIVE KING JB!

  71. b.... s....

    the greatest

  72. T.... P....

    I remember Mother Popcorn 1969.

  73. m.... ....

    James never had a better band than this. Even the JBs weren't as good as the James Brown Orchestra from 1966 to early 1970.

  74. R.... C....

    Yes, Maceo Parker!

  75. R.... C....

    James doing the "Funky Four Corners"

  76. R.... H....

    the negro was stone cold

  77. d.... j....

    I still be diggin' on James Brown

  78. b.... s....

    The best band in the land I just gotta jump back & take my stand The greatest James Brown

  79. �.... ....

    河豚よ! 結構!

  80. P.... J....

    1:30-1:52 too much funky for those with a low musical tolerance level

  81. T.... T....

    So cool a fleet of ambulances raced to the venue as the audience suffered severe frostbite.

  82. V.... B....

    JAMES BROWN - POP CORN


    JAMES , 👑
    YOU GOTTA TO HAVE
    A MOTHER FOR ME
    GIVE ME SOME POPCORN !
    I LOVE 💘 YOU
    JAMES BROWN
    RIP🌹
    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    🔦

  83. M.... H....

    If we had this music out NOW no overweight young people I'm just saying you had to move you wanted to move back in the day a jumpsuit you better have the body now they make them in all sizes then you had to have the body or you were outta luck 😁

    M.... H....

    rite on miss hargrove genius at his best he was way ahead

  84. b.... s....

    The greatest

  85. G.... F....

    I have the album 'It's A Mother'. I also saw him when I was 13 in concert, he touched my hand. For a 13 year old who loved him, I said I wouldn't ever wash that hand again (which everyone says but I was only 13).

  86. G.... W....

    mother popcorn was AND still is a bad motherfucker 🍿🍿🍿

  87. b.... j....

    This song makes my day ..

  88. R.... J....

    Big up Mr. Maceo and Melvin Parker Yall make me proud to come from K...Town USA. KINSTON IN DAH BUILDING

  89. s.... a....

    Man, listening to this is giving me a tingling sensation. Too funky!!!

  90. B.... D....

    So Tower of Power

  91. t.... ....

    JB Force Of Nature

  92. m.... j....

    The hardest working man in show business. Yes indeed.

  93. G.... W....

    mother popcorn 1 of my all-time favorites.

  94. M.... M....

    James Brown's baddest song of his entire life. Maceo on tenor sax.

  95. H.... S....

    The Force is strong in this one

  96. T.... D....

    Good God!

  97. �.... ....

    これがファンク
    頭で考えて作れない