Staples, Mavis - Why Am I Treated So Bad Lyrics

Pop staple sings so smooth (r.i.p.) 😢

The best of best of all

Its so Amazing 👀 seeing footage of my Family & Cuz Mavis is still going Strong @80 God is An Awesome God RIH Pop cleo Vonnie Timeless Music!💗💗💗

Yes she is. I saw her in Cleveland two weeks ago. She was awesome l.

Love the Staple singers. Keep it up....from germany

Stunning old us stuff kind

1sts Cousins GReat POP Mississippi 💥

Im from winona ms where he was born

The sisters bring it.

I cannot shake the irony of all the white people who claim to love the Staple Singers. These people made beautiful music describing their confusion of the oppression we as Black people have had to face since the first day we were pushed and prodded from the slave ships. They didn't have the knowledge that organizations such as The Nation Of Islam, and the Black Panthers had, and in later years, people like the Staples clashed with the militant ideologies that led black people closer to their liberation than previous years. The slave mentality had to be changed, and the passive approach had to be done away with. I love these people, because when the fighting is done for the moment, and the blood and wounds are fresh, they are the ones who will take care of us. They may not like our position, but they'll love our spirit.

"choich"

Amazing at chruch body and soul always a great place to be!!

Their outfits look really nice. I 😍. I connect to this song. I experienced what he was saying. I asked my mom the same questions and I loved the old revival meeting and the choirs.

What a treat to find this.

WATCH OUT FOR OLE' POPS.

Amen amen amen !! Hallelujah Pop and The Staple Singers !!!!

Like this better than the studio version

I can identify yes lord..

excellent great groove!

Pops Staples & Bo Diddley..two of the coolest cats Ive ever seen on a guitar

Why am i treat it so bad maxine mathis

amen amen amen

Pop and girls his smooth!. CHICAGO/MISSISSIPPI style

Hm this was made the year I was created....must be my anthem...

They can do this the best""'

What a great family!

Yes I knew you meant 1960's Sis in Christ....U know we as people all get together black white red or green to unleash threw the Gospel what JESUS has done for us.... Ain't GOD good ....

Amen, God is good, and he loves us all. Amen!

These guys here, they may have crossovered, but they stayed true to their roots. Class act all the way. Pops wrote this btw.

Oops! I meant 1960's. Darn, I can't correct that typo!

Living in Chicago in the mid-960's allowed viewing of the Staple Singers on a Sunday gospel broadcast channel. Back then many greats lived on the south-side. I remember sitting at a locale restaurant where Pops was eating. I admire the Staple family for its musical contributions.

Carmen Jean you old!!!

Jubilee Showcase?

Yes, that's it! And thanks for providing  the name. Would you happen to know the name of the host of Jubilee Showcase? What an interesting broadcast which included many gospel greats of that time.

POPS GOT THE RYTHUM!

Ron Roberts like a clock, he is.

amazing

this is a clasic, lord i love it...

Love Pops

LORD HAVE MERCY.

Pops Was A Bad Man♡

rip Pops

It's the story of the oppressed in this world. Simply born into a cold, unforgiving world & beat down by society for being poor & uneducated, can break a person down. A life like that is enough to make anybody cry out, "Lord, why am I treated so bad!".

What's the meaning behind this song? I need to make a report and I'm using this song. I got the basic but I can't really unravel kt

Dianelly Rivera your sitting on
your brains gobshite 😇😇

That's some real Mississippi shit there.

Yes. Unfortunately.

might be my new favorite too if you listen not close at all you can actually hear soul in the music from this group.

They were treated a lot better than most people in music

You are not getting it - the meaning of this song and the times in which it was sung.

Well I could join them, treated bad all my life

wauhhh -what a voice and feeling.

WHO IS TREATED SO BAD?

Surprised you need to ask - but maybe you really don't know.

Go to to Mavis' song "Eyes on the Prize"

TheJukeboxhero15

My favorite group forever!!

Hot.
Damn.

the one only the best

Bellissima, scoperta solo con la vista del film Selma

Sublime stuff...

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_Sublime._

Love it!  POPs and his family are an American Treasure.  No other group like them.

Thanks, God Bless you, Pops !

Staple Singers > Why Am I Treated So Bad !!!!!!!!!!!!!*************((^_^))

BEAUTIFUL. POWERFUL.  THANK U

Absolutely wonderful.

If I could hear my mother pray again!!

I love this song!

I love it.

I Love the part when it first starts and Mavis Scream HEEEYYYYY. Sounds Like My Family..

She IS family!

Is there a full version of this show on YouTube?

just don't like it

I'm exactly there with you... Pops is a god!

Wow, that is SUH-WEET!!

I wish I went to church with Pops.. and I'm not even religious.
Pops would be my god.

je l'adore kui et sa famille

Oh yeah...makes me reach for my gee-tar every time :)

BROOO! thank you for sharing this!*@!!

Destructive twerps?

I AGREE 100%

god, i just cant get enough of this. What a great groove. The bass players is smokin'

thanks pops and the girls...

Pops and Hubert Sumlin took their Charlie Patton inspiration to Chicago and plugged in and rocked the world...passing the tradition to Curtis Mayfield, who did his thing. R. Kelly almost kept it real and Common showed much respect. I have high hopes for Jennifer Hudson, if she doesn't disappear from dieting. Feed your tradition and PASS IT ON Chicago.

Another Great Performance!

Muy bueno el video ...

I have heard the song on the LP, and now seeing it on video is even better. I love them and I wish they could live on for ever

lovely

@witchcerridwen "Moaning",in this manner,is your spirit connecting with God's Holy Spirit,within yourself,so that intense needs that you may not know or understand how to express in words can be deciphered and met,through your faith in the ALMIGHTY GOD,who is our Creator. Satan can not interfere with this because he has no way of knowing what our spirit and soul needs.God does.Praise our Father.It has nothing to do with "tongues".

Met pops when i was nine..Glad I did!

This is sure some Powerful Spiritual Medicine This Morning!

help me out here is moaning some type of speaking in tonguess or is it the type of moaning that the bible talks about?

Thanks so much for sharing this. Very soothing performance!

Sound real good but ...sure do miss Purvis in the background.

Moan Pops!

My grandmother Dester White and Mr.L.Dawson use to sing this song in their gospel group back in the 60's. Mr.L.Dawson has passed on now but, my grandmother Dester White is still here and still singing these songs today. Believe it or not!We love this kind of gospel singing down here in Mississippi!The Land Boys of Millry, Alabama.

Just saw Mavis and the band doing this song at Yoshi's in Oakland...SO glad I was there.

Part II: One more note--I believe that NYU film student Amalie Rothchild came up with most of the film segments that were shown before and during the light show. An unofficial Fillmore theater photographer, she produced one of the most comprehensive photo records of the place, which can be seen in her marvelous photographic memoir: Live At The Fillmore East.

Thanks for your response, macvoutie. As I recall, Bill Graham had to occasionally berate the audience not to stand, jump, or dance on the chairs as they were destroying them. It has been said that there were plenty of narcs down there as well, though they were apparently looking for those trading in harder stuff and didn't hassle the pot-heads.

Well for starters the place was an old theater and it had very comfortable old style seats but when the house lights went down the whole auditorium reeked from the odor of reefer. It was sold in the mens room by guy's not associated with the theater.
Before the acts there was usually a cartoon or some clever film clip from the the 20's 30's or 40's.

Wow! Tell us more about the atmosphere at Fillmore East.

I saw Mavis perform this one at Massey Hall in Toronto the other day, such a moving piece of music and what a fuckin groove!!!

Pops knew how to bend them strings!! RIP

Mavis said in an interview this was MLK's favorite song by the Staple Singers.

Thats very True💯

this hard core testify!

I saw them at the Filmore East long ago. Just Pops, Mavis and the sisters and thier brother. NO BACKUP BAND (I forgot who they opened for). They brought the house down. The ladies came down the aisles (Mavis shook my brothers hand). It was one of the most moving, Soulful shows I've ever seen.

RESPECT!!

love it thanks

Now that's MUSIC!!!!! Go POPS!!!

HEY NOW !

i love this group and this song sooooo much!!! their my favorite ever!!!!

Thanks piotr - that's beautiful, so groovy and honest - beautiful people!