Now if
you're the kind of joe
that wants to live a decent life
Be you a single one,
married, man or wife
Be careful with these steps you take,
a long life's road so steep
Oh, don't you be tabooin'
things you do
Watch the company you keep
Have your fun, spend your month
Holler loud and climb the wall
Blow your bugle, bite the breeze
And have a bookabee bop -bop
But be careful, brother,
where you cast your seed
For what you sow you reap
Well, if you don't want nobody talkin'
bout your livin',
watch the company you keep
My momma told me long ago,
son always do what's right
Now don't you run around
with boys who steal,
who cuss and smoke and fight
She told me no matter how I live,
how good it tried to be
Well, she told me that the people always
judge a man by his company
Have your fun, spend your money,
holler loud and climb the wall
Blow your bugle, pat the breeze,
and have a boogie -bop ball
But be careful, brother,
where you cast your seed
For what you sow you reap
Well, if you don't want nobody talkin'
About your livin',
what's the company you keep?
Well, if you don't want nobody talkin'
About your livin',
what's the company you keep?