I've Gotta Be Me/Once In A Lifetime - Live/1970

Thank you very much

As you all know, all I'm tryna do

Is get myself together

(Have you got yourself together?)

(You ready to go back to work?)

Here goes Jean again, bothering me again

All I'm tryna do is do my own thing

All right?

Whether I'm right

Whether I'm wrong

Whether I find a place in this world or never belong

I've got to be me

I've got to be me

What else can I be

But what I am?

I want to live

Not merely survive

And I won't give up this dream of life that keeps me alive

I've got to be me

I've got to be...

This dream that I see

Makes me what I am

That faraway prize

A world of success

Oh, is waiting for me

If I heed the call

I won't settle down

Won't settle for less

As long as I know that I have a chance

I can have it all

I'll go it alone

How it must be

I cannot be right for somebody else

When I'm not right for me

I've got to be free in me

I've gotta be free, oh oh oh

Daring to try

To do it or die

I've gotta be me

Clap your hands and say

Da, da, da, da, da, da

Say

Da, da, da, da, da, da

Da, da, da, da, da, da

Say

Da, da

For once in a lifetime

I feel like a child

I soar like an eagle

As if I had wings

Gotta be free

I've got to be free

Oh, daring to try

To do it or die

I've got to be me

I've got to be me

I've gotta be me

Stevie, everybody sing

Da, da, da, da

Sing

Sing it louder

What we're gonna do now

Is we're gonna get a little thing going

And what I want you to do is pay very close attention

Because you're just gonna accent one beat with your hand

All right

There you go

Yo boy, oh, boy, you got it

Hit that, hit that one beat harder than the rest of 'em

Now I want y'all to sing that part that I told you to sing before

Sing it

(Da, da, da, da, da, da)

(Da, da, da, da, da, da)

Louder

(Da, da, da, da, da, da)

Do it so everybody can hear you

(Da, da, da, da, da, da)

Everybody sing

Da, da, da, da, da, da

Louder

Here we go