Doing My Own Thing - Johnnie Taylor

Live it like you wanna live it

Give it like you wanna give it

Love it like you wanna love it

Hold it like you wanna hurt it

I’m gonna express myself, mmm, yeah

It make me so mad, every time I turn my back

People are talkin' about Johnnie Taylor

They say I’m doing this and that

But, that don’t bother me 'cause

I’m not botherin' you

I’m doin' my own thing, that’s all I wanna do

Just one more thing

If I go out and get drunk every night and day

If I don’t throw those beer cans in your backyard

What have you got to say?

Let me do my thing, that’s all I wanna do

Here’s another thing

Big, fat Sally with your hot pants on

You say she oughta be whipped for ever leavin' home

Well, leave her alone, y’all

She’s just doin' her own thing

What’s wrong with big, fat Sally doin' her own thing?

You know what?

Here’s another thing

Wait a minute

I wanna tell you about a friend of mine

She was 92 years old

One thing I liked about her

She sure had a whole lot of soul

I said: «Girl, folks are talkin' about you

All in your neighborhood

They said all them young men you got

They sure don’t mean you no good»

She told me one thing: «If I live to be 99

If young men kill me…»

You know what she told me?

She say:

«I sure don’t mind dyin'»

And that’s when I made up my mind

I made up my mind that same day

I was gon', I was gonna do my own thing

Deal like I wanna deal

Go where I wanna go

Play where I wanna play, you know I wanna get down

Love like I wanna love

'Cause I’m just doin' my own thing (I'm doin' my own thing)

I’m doin' my own thing (I'm doin' my own thing)

Please don’t stop me (I'm doin' my own thing)

I’m doin' my own thing, oh, yeah (I'm doin' my own thing)

I just got to do my own thing (I'm doin' my own thing)

I won’t take the back roads, no, no (I'm doin' my own thing)

I’m doin', and doin', and doin'