if you don't look around

they told me don'cha go down to that city

don't you go down to that city

i say

for there's trouble there for sure and it's no concern of yours

and it's all i have to hear them people say

if you don't look around

you won't see my a-goin'

see me a-goin' that way

if you don't look around

you'll have no way of knowin'

i don't think you even know what i say

and i saw children just walkin' 'long and singin'

when a voice from behind me rang through

then i saw an ugly man with a mad dog in his hand

he said

stand right there. i'll turn him loose on you"