You know
there was a time when
if someone told you to
do somethin'
you did it
Bam
Right on
No questions asked
It was yes Sir
and yes Mam
You never said no
You know huh
But you know
things are changing nowadays
It's a new day
babies
Folks want to take
their own lives
into their hands and
make their own choices
No longer
do they wanna go along with
the program 'cause everybody
say it's right
You know what I mean
Let me tell ya
what I'm talkin' about
ya see 'cause
I don't want no gold watch
for workin' fifty years
from nine till five
A-while the boss
is guzzling champagne
and I'm beltin' beer
in some dive
'Cause I want to be
happy and free
Livin' and loving for me
I want to be
happy and free
Livin' and
lovin' for me
Like a natural man
A natural man
Well now
I refuse to listen
to people sayin'
that I live too high
I'm gonna taste it now
before my
one life streaks on by
'Cause I want to be
happy and free
Livin' and lovin' for me
I want to be
happy and free
Livin' and
lovin' for me
Just like a natural man
I said a natural man
Well now I tried to do
what others said that
I should do
They say that I should be
fooling faking well
folks gotta do is just
make me baby can do
man I just can't
take that
So when you see me walk
and don't you notice that
bright look in my eyes
My feet are on the ground
and my soul is searching
for the sky
'Cause I want to be
happy and free
Livin' and lovin' for me
I want to be
happy and free
Livin' and
lovin' for me
just like a natural man
a natural man
Just like a natural man