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Everyday People
This page links to question 120 of the Oldies Quiz
Everyday People
words and music by Sylvester Stewart (Sly Stone)
Number 1 on Billboard for 5 weeks.
Peaked at number 2 on 77 WABC weekly surveys in 1969.
Billboard's number 6 song of the year in 1969 for Sly and The Family Stone
Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong.
My own beliefs are in my song.
The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then,
makes no difference what group I'm in.
I am everyday people, yeah, yeah.
There is a blue one who can't accept the green one
for living with a fat one trying to be a skinny one.
And different strokes for different folks,
and so on and so on and scooby dooby doo-bee,
oh sha sha, we got to live together.
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I am no better and neither are you.
We are the same whatever we do.
You love me, you hate me, you know me and then,
you can't figure out the bag l'm in.
I am everyday people, yeah, yeah.
There is a long hair that doesn't like the short hair
for bein' such a rich one that will not help the poor one.
And different strokes for different folks,
and so on and so on and scooby dooby doo-bee,
oh sha sha, we got to live together.
There is a yellow one that won't accept the black one
that won't accept the red one that won't accept the white one
And different strokes for different folks.
Oh, sha, sha,
I, I, I, I am everday people.
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