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[Dedication] This is my My dedication A son to a father From one to another One to another A brother to a brother Cast your mind back (ooh ooh ooh) To black Africa (ooh ooh ooh) Little wooden ships (ooh ooh ooh) Crossing the ocean (ooh ooh ooh) Little wooden ships (ooh ooh ooh) Landing on the shoreline (ooh ooh ooh) The name of the place, Lord (ooh ooh ooh) Is New-Orleans, yes (ooh ooh ooh) Remember Jelly Roll Morton (ooh ooh ooh) Later Charlie Bird Parker (ooh ooh ooh) Travelling to the North, yes (ooh ooh ooh) With Charlie Bird Parker (ooh ooh ooh) People going insane, yes (ooh ooh ooh) With John Coltrane, Lord (ooh ooh ooh) But can you dig on his name now? (ooh ooh ooh) I say it's Roll on Kirk, now (ooh ooh ooh) [Roll on Kirk] Make 'em work, make 'em work, make 'em work Roll on Kirk, yeah Make 'em work, make 'em work, make 'em work Roll on Kirk on, check it one more time Make 'em work, make 'em work, make 'em work Roll, oh, Roll on Kirk on, mmm mmm Make 'em work, make 'em work, make 'em work Roll on Kirk on, yeah Watch him move Every movement he speaks now See his tender fingers Strangled in his cheeks now He does a little dance And he stomps both his feet now Yeah he'll moan and moan and blow The bellows in his cheeks now Come on, baby Make 'em work, make 'em work, make 'em work Roll on Kirk, go baby Make 'em work, make 'em work, make 'em work Roll on Kirk on Come aboard his ship It is a beautiful trip, Lord You're welcome aboard, yes Especially if you're hip, child Watch him closely While he makes love to the world now He makes a woman aware of man, ooh A man of a girl, now Oh, make 'em work, make 'em work, make 'em work Roll, Roll on Kirk, yeah Make 'em work, make 'em work, make a-'em work, m-make a-'em work Roll on Kirk on, now Yes, the captain's at the wheel, Lord Take you on a trip, yeah You all got to excel/answer [?] To the invisible whip, now It's driving me, oh no I got to flow father Help me, sister Help me, brother Take my hand, yeah And meet me to the bellow Keep it to my father Come on with me, brother Mmm, Children Little bit children, yeah Mmm, make 'em work, make 'em work, make 'em work Roll on Kirk, Lord Make 'em work, make 'em work, make 'em work Roll on Kirk, mama Make 'em work, make 'em work Roll on Kirk, Lord, mmm-hmm-hmm Everything has a dream Everything has a scheme Let's search for Their reasons together The reason together Make 'em work, make 'em work, make 'em work Roll on Kirk, all right Hey man You need of any woman R-R-R-R-Rassan Roll on Kirk R-R-R-R-Rassan R-R-R-R-Rassan R-R-R-R-Rassan Rassan -san -san