The Summer of ’42

Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson -
"The Summer of ‘42"
Gotta move on, I gotta see tomorrow
Gotta move on, gotta get ahead
I can't look back
There's nothing there but sorrows
Gotta move on and get ahead
Gotta move on, I gotta see tomorrow
Gotta move on, gotta get ahead
I can't look back
There's nothing there but sorrows
Gotta move on and get ahead

Now it's the end of air that you breathe
It should become very clean, clean
Well, I guess I'll scream likewise
The rivers, you'll never be far from rivers
Great lakes and streams is
Walking on the water
It seems like you wish it
That could you undo
But there ain't no way to undo it
Everything that's happened to you
Since the Summer of '42
But there ain't no way, ain't
No way, ain't no way, man
What you gonna
You can leave if you want to, but I, I'm
After, yes, I keep on thinking
I keep on thinking like

Gotta move on, I gotta see tomorrow
Gotta move on, gotta get ahead
I can't look back
There's nothing there but sorrows
Gotta move on and get ahead what it mean?
Gotta move on, I gotta see tomorrow
Gotta move on, gotta get ahead
I can't look back
There's nothing there but sorrows
Gotta move on and get ahead

Now call the rednecks that you
Know like George Wallace
Suddenly change their minds or claim they did
Tell me
Could you relate to them and work for them?
I mean, like, after all this time?
Now all we're trying to tell somebody, tell
Somebody, tell somebody, please
There ain't no way to undo
There just ain't no way to undo
Yeah, but this thing that's done happened
To you, happened to ya, happened to ya
Now, since the Summer of '42, I done said
Honest to God, Honest to God, Honest to God
Man (Say what, brother man)
What you've gone reminiscing
Ain't what my life, my life's been missing
So I keep on thinking and
I keep on feeling like

I gotta move on, I gotta see tomorrow
Gotta move on, gotta get ahead
I can't look back
There's nothing there but sorrows
Gotta move on and get ahead bass man solo

Gil Scott-Heron: Got thirty years to
Make up for directions here
Which one of these should I
Be more worried about?
Victor Brown: Get out the way, brother man
Get out the way
Gil Scott-Heron: Stay ahead, stay ahead
I have

Gotta move on, I gotta see tomorrow
Gotta move on, gotta get ahead
I can't look back
There's nothing there but sorrows
Gotta move on and get ahead can't stop me
Gotta move on, I gotta see tomorrow
(and it got me)
Gotta move on, gotta get ahead
Gotta move on, gotta see tomorrow
(Just that they're talking, it got me)
Gotta move on, I gotta get ahead (Back)
I gotta move on, gotta see tomorrow
(and it got me)
Gotta move on, I gotta get ahead)
Gotta move on, you gotta see tomorrow
(and it got me) come on, you gotta get ahead
Gotta move on, I gotta see tomorrow
Gotta move on, gotta get ahead
I can't look back
There's nothing there but sorrows
Gotta move on and get ahead, brother man
Gotta move on, I gotta see tomorrow
Gotta move on, gotta get ahead
I can't look back