Beautiful Brother of Mine

I know we've all got problems

that's why I'm here to say

keep peace with me

and I with you

let me love in my own way

I am blind

and I just cannot understand

what do we mean for Justice?

Are there really levels to The Man?

Old man, you know you must

regain all your children's trust

and I didn't have to be here

you didn't have to look for me

when I was just a nuthin' child

why couldn't they just let me be?

Bite your lip and take a trip
though there may be wet road ahead
and you cannot slip 

 Just move on up 

for peace you'll find
Into the steeple of beautiful people 

where there's only one kind

I know we have great respect

for the Sister and Mother

it's even better yet

But there's the joker in the street

lovin' one brother and killin' the other

when the time comes and we are truly free

there'll be no brothers left, you see

and mighty mighty

spade and whitey

your Black and White Power

is gonna be a crumblin' tower

and we who stand divided

so goddamn undecided

give this a thought

in stupidness we've all been caught

Curtis Mayfield 

Beautiful Brother of Mine

Curtis In the Seventies

cd1

01 Mighty Mighty (Spade and Whitey)

02 (Don't Worry) If There's Hell Below We're All Gonna Go

03 Right On for the Darkness

04 Beautiful Brother of Mine

05 No Thing On Me (Cocaine Song)

06 Hard Times

07 Ain't No Love Lost

08 Check Out Your Mind

09 Freddie's Dead

10 We Got to Have Peace

11 Give Me Your Love (Love Song)

12 Underground

13 Eddie You Should Know Better

14 Pusherman

15 Kung Fu

cd2

01 Little Child Runnin' Wild

02 Do Do Wap Is Strong In Here

03 If I Were Only a Child Again

04 We the People Who Are Darker than Blue

05 Stare and Stare

06 Power to the People

07 Mr. Welfare Man

08 Future Shock

09 Move On Up

10 Do It All Night

11 Sparkle

12 Get Down

13 Stone Junkie

14 Superfly

952 MB FLAC/June 2014 archive link

beautiful brother of mine

whatever may be your birth sign?

 we are not of the same seed
but surely we're both the same breed

June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999