You Am What You Am - Canned Heat

You am what you am

When you am it

This whole world is all we’ve got

So don’t you damn it

You know all God’s children

Ain’t got shoes

Some folks got

Nothin' but the blues

So of them that’s got

Help their brothers get

We could make this old world

A better place yet

'Cause you am what you am

When you am it

Life’s an open door

So don’t you slam it

All God’s children

Ain’t got shoes

Some folks got

Nothin' but the blues

Take birds of a feather

Like to live up in the same tree

But it really don’t matter whether

I be you or you be me

'Cause you am what you am

When you am it

The world is all we’ve got

So don’t you damn it

You can see your ship a-comin'

But you just can’t stand no more

Get yourself together

And bring your ship up on the shore

'Cause you am what you am

When you am it

The world is all we’ve got

So don’t you damn it