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Mavis Staples – No Time For Cryin' (Live) (2019) | Track profile | Dork

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Mavis Staples
Live in London
No Time For Cryin' (Live)

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No Time For Cryin' (Live)

Release date: 8th February 2019

From Live in London

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About This Track

"No Time For Cryin' (Live)" is a track by Mavis Staples, from the album Live in London, released 8th February 2019. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples

Lyrics

No Time For Cryin' (Live)

[Intro]

Yeah

[Verse 1]

No time for crying

No time for tears

Got no time for crying

No time for tears

[Chorus]

We've got work to do

We've got work to do

We've got work to do

We've got work to do

Hey

[Verse 2]

People are crying

Bullets are flying

No time for tears

No time for tears

[Chorus]

We've got work to do

We've got work to do, y'all

We've got work to do, yeah

We've got work to do

Well, yeah

[Interlude]

Well, yeah

[Verse 3]

Gotta look at the children, y'all

Gotta look at the children, well

Gotta see about the

See about the little babies, well, well

Motherless children, mmm

Motherless children, mmm

Oh, what a world we're living in

It's a mean old world that we're living in

Taking babies away from their mothers

Taking babies away from their mothers

We got motherless children, oh yeah

Motherless children, huh

I don't know about you

But I'ma tell you what I'm gon' do

I'm gonna march right up to that

I'm gonna march right up to that big house

[Chorus]

We got work to do, y'all

We got a job

We got work to do

We got work to do

We got work to do, woo

Work to do

We got work to do

We got work to do

We got work to do

We got work to do

Work to do

Work to do

[Outro]

Yeah

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Track details

From Live in London

2019

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Album

Release year

2019

—Can You Get to That (Live)
—No Time For Cryin' (Live)
—We're Gonna Make It (Live)
—Love And Trust (Live)
—Dedicated (Live)
—Encore: Happy Birthday (Encore) [Live]
—Let's Do It Again (Live)
—Slippery People (Live)
—Take Us Back (Live)
—Touch a Hand (Live)
—What You Gonna Do (Live)
—Who Told You That (Live)
—What You Gonna Do (Intro) [Live]
—You Are Not Alone (Live)

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