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What a super fun tune to write and perform. It seems like we can get advice from just about anywhere these days. Advice columns in the newspaper, blogs with unlimited suggestions on how to live your life, and more people than we can count in the social media world. Everyone seems to have an opinion, and these opinions include what other people would do in a similar situation. Ahh, the joys of speculation, right?

So we studied. We researched. We locked ourselves away for hours reading, listening, pondering so many of the great questions of the universe. We debated, we laughed, we cried . . . and we anguished. Who? Who can help guide us with words of wisdom, show us that path through the dark? Surely there is somewhere a caretaker of words who, when asked, can enlighten us, show us the wisdom with a simple phrase when we cry, “Please tell us, what would YOU do?” And the answer was clear:

“HEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY” Words to live by, thank you James Brown.

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WWJBD

Waaaaa, jump, beat, pitter pat
You know my heart, it goes goes just like that
When she smiles and winks at me
Her love and mine were meant to be
But your sister said boy, leave that girl alone
She don’t want you ‘round her home sweet home
No more, no more she don’t wanna see you
So I said aw girl, what would James Brown do?

I sit and watch you walk on by
Oh I’m so lonely but I gotta try
Try to make you love me so
My love baby is one that you gotta know
But your mama said you found another man
He treat her right, you know he can
You stick around, and you just a fool
So I said hey mama, what would James Brown do?

One more time to call your name
One more time to play that game
One more time to see you there
One more time cause baby I know that you care
But your daddy said boy don’t you come around
Not even one more time, or I’ll beat you down
He said son, you need to go find another girl or two
Cause you know what boy, that’s what James Brown would do

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from The History We Wrote, released June 15, 2019

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WHOA!TIGER Indianapolis, Indiana

We're WHOA!TIGER, and we've been busy in the central Indiana original music scene since 2008.

Any fan of gutsy rock-n-roll and storytelling lyrics should find plenty to like in WHOA!TIGER. Inspired by the classic album-oriented bands of the 70's, we write contemporary original rock music, with a decidedly old soul.

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