Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further - Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint

We may seem happy

Like everything’s alright

But from the outside lookin' in

Everything’s uptight

But deep down inside

We’re coverin' up the pain

It’s an old thing, it’s a soul thing

But it’s a real thing

Pray tell, what’s gonna happen to brother?

Who’s gonna help him get further?

One another

One another

There’s a old dude standin' on the corner

Waiting for a fox to pass

The only thing he’s got to go by

Is this is where he saw her last

And there’s old John, two dollars in his pocket

Talkin' loud and thinks he’s rich

And look for little fool, too cool to go to school

Get a job, in two days he quits

Pray tell, what’s gonna happen to brother?

Who’s gonna help him get further?

One another, is that the truth?

One another, yeah, you’re right

Pray tell, what’s gonna happen to brother?

Who’s gonna help him get further?

One another

One another

Mama get up early, early in the mornin'

Papa’s already gone

(Gone and gone and gone)

Goin' out a-working for half of what he’s worth now

You know that’s so wrong

What happen to the Liberty Bell

I heard so much about?

Did it really ding-dong?

(Ding-dong)

It must have dinged wrong

It didn’t ding long

Pray tell, what’s gonna happen to brother?

Who’s gonna help him get further?

One another, is that the truth?

One another, yeah, you’re right

Mama get up early, early in the mornin'

Papa’s already gone

(Gone and gone and gone)

Goin' out a-working for half of what he’s worth now

You know that is wrong

What happen to the Liberty Bell

I heard so much about?

Did it really ding-dong?

(Ding-dong)

It must have dinged wrong

It didn’t ding long

Pray tell, what’s gonna happen to brother?

Who’s gonna help him get further?

One another, is that the truth?

One another, yeah, you’re right

Pray tell, what’s gonna happen to brother?

Who’s gonna help him get further?

One another, is that the truth?

One another, yeah, you’re right

Did it really ding-dong?

(Ding-dong)

It didn’t ding long

Did it really ding-dong?

(Ding-dong)

It didn’t ding long