Get a Little, Give a Little

I'd like to talk to the fellas for a minute

Now fellas, if you think I'm trying to drive you

Just ask that lady there beside you

You see, it's a known fact that a woman don't have no trouble

Trying to get a man to sock it to her

But she do have trouble trying to get him to open up his pocket to her

If you want to hear him holler, all you got to do is ask him for a dollar

Whether she's a nurse, secretary waitress or clerk

She can be a typist, teacher, beautician or any kind of work

When she pays her babysitter, a condor and the rent

And get a few things she need for herself, there's nothing left

She's gotta try to keep herself looking neat

She's gotta buy clothes and food for her kids to eat

They don't show it proud as they walk down the streets

Some of those women don't have a thing at home to eat

So when you get a little, give a little

You don't necessarily have to be her man (you don't have to be her man, ooh)

If she's kind enough to let you love her

You shouldn't mind giving her a little help (ooh-ooh)

Now fellas, you know it's wrong for us to make love to them women all the time

If they ask us for 20 dollars to buy their children a pair of shoes

The first thing we say, "Go ask they daddy, they ain't mad"

Am nobody's fool and this you can believe

But I help my woman when she's in need

Why can't she go if she can't come to her man?

To dry away her tears, to help pay her bills, or just to understand

So when you get a little, give a little

If she gives you all of her, and you accept (ooh)

If she's kind enough to let you love her

You shouldn't mind giving her a little help (ooh)

And when you get a little (get a little), give a little (give a little)

You don't necessarily, you don't necessarily (you don't have to be her man)

Have to be her man (ooh)

If she's kind enough to let you love her

You shouldn't mind giving her a helping hand (ooh)

But we all run short sometimes (better not)