Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'
Look both ways before you cross my mind.
It's the easiest way to stay in the game: By helping the younger kids, they're gonna preach for you.
I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.
Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.
I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.