Sam Cooke - Mean Old World Lyrics

Yeah , ...OK, we already know " Vietnam by Ken Burns" brought you here and we are dully impressed.

the great Sam Cooke..sheer class.

TV Commercials have been using music from the 60's and 70's quit often. My grand children are hearing some of these songs in commercials for the first time and asking me how did I learn that song so fast. I have to laugh and say these songs were originally written decades ago. At the end of Ken Burns Vietnam movie this song came on and I immediately started singing. I told my grandson that this is "The Sam Cooke" and no one could stand up to his style today.

Going Out In Style...❤️

Who else is here because of Going out in Style?

RIP sam today is 11 dec 2019 the day you pass

I used to get my butt whipped to this song....Momma didn't Play....I miss those days

Awesome enough said

"Sam is the BEST"!

Was watching Vietnam war on Netflix brought me here

T-Bone Walker brought me here.

Why was this not in Joker?!

Can't say enough 'bout Sam Cooke! Thanks for the Memories!

"MEAN OLD WORLD! 2019😒
RiP Sam ❤

When the little girl didnt dob Morgan Freeman in for robbing the bank. Time to take back what is ours people, lets take the fight to our oppressors. Banking industry, governments, medical industry, education system, police force, armed forces........time to end the enslavery. Let stand together and say NO MORE!!!

True song.. for sure

Damn Good.XX

Sam Cooke had a voice like honey. Smooth and velvety. You are missed so much Sam. I just love you and your beautiful voice and beautiful songs.

Yes it is brother..♡
And your missed
The Stars Must belong to the sky..👼

2019 still listening to mr.sam cook.never get enough.

The Vietnam war on PBS also bought me here. X :)

Ive been here since I was 14 Im 44! Any questions!

Still ring true today....what a voice ..great post thank you been listening to Mr Cooke since a very young age now 71 ...still love it more ..ol man way down in TX...jd

This is a MEAN , MEAN OLD WORLD.
To live in. All by,ouself. To be alone... this-is a MEAN ole World.

I wish I had someone. To Love me.. LOVE`d me TRUE. Then I know. I wouldn't be so Blue.
I`M MY OWN MAN, so when oh When will ai Learn. .. all by myself...

SAM COOKE // AMY WINEHOUSE

Musica boa demais ✌🤩✌

3rd. Generation G... here

Memphissippi, my tobacco road..........

#1 now.........

At 7 or 8 yrs old I fell in love with this song. Who would have thought at 38 I’d be feeling just like this.......

Vietnam War brought me here

wheres my love n this mean ole world

Touching ..I’m feeling this..living this ...sing my heart man

beautiful song but when you have a mean ass x that is so inconsiderate what a bitch Vanessa Meyers that's you

Such a truly beautiful, moving song by the late great Sam Cooke. It really hits a note with me. This is the first time I've heard the entire song and I love it.

Old but Gold

Beautiful song check out Moonlight in Vermont he made a lot of wonderful ballads that weren't necessarily mainstream

Vietnam war .. what she said👇🙏

good taste in music brought me here.

The documentary "Vietnam War" on PBS brought me here. I'd never heard this song before but the words of this song still ring true to this day.

"Night Beat" and that live album he made down in FL are my favorite Sam Cooke LP's...and I love 'em all...thanks for posting!

Great true song,should have at least a million views

I come here after the end of Red Dead Redemption II. Don't know why, maybe that was an anthem for Arthur.

thank you ken burns

This song hits home I just lost my girlfriend to foster care and I couldn’t do anything to prevent her family from sending her away...

Going in style

it is a great song

my local record store brought me here.

The same to me. I have discovered this wonderful song watching "Vietnam War" the second part. It is really charming. Truly good things don't age.

Dang, this song made me cry 😢 Great song! Great singer! Gone from this world way to soon. Rest In Peace Sammy Baby. ❤✌

I have always loved Sam Cooke voice. It's so velvety and silky smooth like shea butter💗💗💗💗

Sweet as Tupelo Honey.

The day that Sam Cooke was murdered, it had an affect on my neighborhood that was more powerful then John F Kennedy being shot down.

Does anyone know where to get the piano sheet music for this version please?

OH How I miss this man's style. I grow UP on this man's silk voice. I'm in here now pulling the music to this song and play and sing it for my Mother who is 97 years old. Yes, under her and my Dad, Sam Cooke had a seat in the music room in our house back in he "60's"

Both parents gone, no grandparents either... But I'm hanging on in there. I love his music

Me to . As I em not American for me it is so American song even then I was not understanding English 20 years ago I was feeling USA in that mood. It just so nice music and voice.

jaysus christ i have found a sam cooke song i have never heard before, love it.

good Music

Ken Burns The Vietnam war.... Thank you for turning me on.

Once again the late great Sam cook and yes this is a mean old world but I'm so glad there's a friend name Jesus

Going Out in Style made me look this song up.. Old Sam Cooke.. Still true today.

I used to sing this song walking to and frow to the store... this genius set a standard for soul music.... especially for black men in which we needed a voice to show that, we can LOVE and BE LOVED TOO.

Who the hell would give this a thumbs down..smh....they should reevaluate themselves. Truly

Ken burns documentary on Vietnam brought this song to me.

Beautiful.
Heard it for the first time watching “Ken Burns Vietnam documentary

Beautiful vocal instrument :)

P.B.S. Brought Me Here

I love the movie Going in Style which this song is played. But we have to learn to pay attention to these movies, this movie at the end where the little Asian did not identify Freeman but she remember the watch. They offically ok mixing races, you notice Freemans grandaugther is Malatto, mixed raced. Thats why she did not identify the black man.Threy promoting race mixing.

I heard this song on the movie Going in Style staring Morgan Freeman. He and 3 other elderly men rob the bank that stolen there penion funds. Funny but heart touching movie.

It’s like rocky said, this is a mean world that will beat you down if you let it. So dam true.

Wow, a Yeager add for this song, hmm

I heard this song in the Movie Going out in style, good movie & great song to match in light of recent events, We need each other; Love, forgive,🙏 live your etenality now ❤

Sent from heaven with voice like that

A travesty and still somewhat debateable manner in which he was killed. They really should have re investigated the circumstances around his 'justified' murder.

Heard this on an episode of This Is Us. Never heard it before. Should have known it was Sam Cooke. Love it!

I haven't heard this song in over 35 years or more. beautiful thank you Dam Cooke!

I know how to rob a bank going out in style!

Going in Style also brought me here.

Believe me.. Just like the other fellas said GOING IN STYLE brought me here.

That clean piano and his voice pure diamond

Going in style brought me here

The Vietnam War by Ken Burns brought me here.

Going in Style brought me here as well. I love Sam Cooke and had never heard this song.

“Going In Style” made me love this song forever

Me too :)

Going in Style 2017 brought me here. I could listen to Sam Cooke sing the phone book.

Sam got millions of guys laid.....MY HERO

Purest voice ever!!!

So many great bluesmen have renditions of this classic, including Tbone Walker, Muddy, Howling Wolf.Timeless and amazing.

T Bone Walker does a great rendition....

Preston Dust

this isnt on the first page of youtube, that's tragic.

Sharon Harden...me too; that's why I'm here.  Quite a compelling documentary, wasn't it?

The piano is pure fucking gold

Sergio Morales do you know the notes I literally can't find them anywhere

Same here sharon had to fine out who sing this song watching the Vietnam war documentation.

I love Sam Cooke, but never heard this one. I was watching the PBS doc on the Vietnam War and this played during the credits. I knew it was him instantly and came here. R.I.P. Sam!

wldennis1 Like you, I'd never heard it until the Vietnam War doc. What a great song. And Sam Cooke is the best!

wldennis1.

Just heard this during the credits of the Viet Nam episode. What a wonderful song by the great Sam Cooke. This song speaks to my reality now.

Ken burns "Vietnam war " brought me here...RIP Mr Hefner ....

Unique voice. My pop booked Sam Cooke for the NCO club in Giesen Germany in 63. Never heard this tune before. Pop had been in the South Pacific in '44, Korea in the 50''s, said his unit was mobilizing to Vietnam, and thought with four kids and a wife, two wars were enough. Time to pull the pin. He learned that i n Jump school. This PBS series is teaching what we all should have learned in school. RIP Jerry Minikowski. I remember your Panama training slide show about your Army buddies who didn't make it back from Danang.

my my my my goodness Sam Cooke absolutely untouchable. learning so much about Vietnam through this documentary thank you Ken Burns for showing us the truth

I'm came here from the PBS Vietnam Documentary broadcast in Las Vegas today, September 24, 2017, at 2:00pm. "It's a mean world to live in all alone."