The Blacker the Berrie — текст песни

You know my brothers and I was raised in Cincinnati

Cincinnati Ohio

And I remember when we were kids we used to walk to the woods

And go black berry picking

Swinging our baskets on our arms

Skipping down the road, you know

And Kelly used to have an expression, you used to say back then

We made a song out of that expression

I remember the words of it

It used to go a little like this

The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice

He said these words

The blacker the berry he said the sweeter the juice

The blacker the berry sweeter the juice

You know he digged black berries so much

And everywhere he would go he would use that as his excuse you know

Staying out late at night

And my brother Rudolph he used to like strawberries, if I remember correctly,

at the time

And at the time my thing was wild cherries

I remember the three of us used to steal tomatoes

And lay on the ground and peel all kind of ice potatoes

Saying

The blacker the berry

The sweeter the juice

Alright

Lord have mercy

Yeah, yeah

We used to strip down bananas

And throw the peelings away at the same time in the street, you know

And when it got hot we just drank all the lemonade we could get

Til we knocked ourselves clean off our feet

And we walked along

Singing the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice

Come on y’all

Black berry

The sweeter the juice

Help me sing this song

Black berries

The sweeter, the sweet the juice

Now how would you look eating a green berry, you know

What’s the use

Swing you basket on your arm

Sing it sing it sing this song

The blacker the berry

The blacker the berry

Yeah yeah

The sweeter the juice

I like black berries

And everywhere I go, that’s my excuse

I can still hear them singing the song

If you listen hard enough you’ll hear

The sweeter the juice

The blacker the berry

Blacker the berry

I like black berries

That’s my excuse

Black black black

Sweeter the juice

Sing it one more time

Little baby

The sweeter the juice

I like black berries

I like black berries

That’s my excuse

Sing, sing sing the song

Blacker the berry

Sweeter the juice

Blacker the berries

Sweeter the juice

I like black berries

I like black berries

That’s my excuse

We would wander along

Sing sing sing the song

I like black berries

I like black berries

That’s my excuse