You gotta move baby

You Gotta Move is a song written by Fred McDowell and Rev. Gary Davis. Being a well-known song of McDowell's, in their 1971 album Sticky Fingers.

The album which included this song was recorded at McDowell's home in Como, Mississippi in 1964, and in Holy Springs, Mississippi and Berkeley, California in 1965.

Notes: Mississippi Fred McDowell (vocals, bottle-neck guitar); Eli Green (vocals, guitar); Annie McDowell (vocals).

CD Release Date: November 30, 1993 - Label: Arhoolie Records

Lyrics:

You got to move
You got to move
You got to move, child
You got to move
But when the Lord
Gets ready
You got to move

(guitar) Taaaak'it eaaaaasy! Bis repetita

You may be high
You may be low
You may be rich, child
You may be po'
But when the Lord gets ready
You've got to move

(guitar) Dzooooooong! Bis repetita

You see that woman
That walk the street
You see the policeman
Out on his beat
But when the Lord gets ready
You got to move

(guitar) Boiiiinnng! Bis repetita

You got to move
You got to move
You've got to move, child
You've got to
But when the Lord gets ready
You got to move.