'Cause life ain't no jokin' business
This life ain't no jokin' business

[Chorus]
'Cause, I'm a, I'm a serious man
No, don't be gossip with them heathens
Me, I'm a serious man
Seem like, the trouble, it come for them
Me, I'm a serious man
No, don't be sitting with them heathens
Me, I'm a serious man
That's what I am

[Verse 1]
And I won't laugh and take life for a joke, Lord, no
Then watch poor people's life go up in smoke
And I don't feel that we gon' take this on, I said no
We need to have praise in god
'Fore our life is done

[Chorus]
So, I'm a, I'm a serious man
No don't be gossip with no heathen
Me, I'm a serious man
Seem like more trouble again for them
Me, I'm a serious man
No, don't be sitting with them heathen
Me, I'm a serious man
That's what I am
[Verse 2]
And I won't laugh over political ideology, Lord, no
Devaluing dollars in the fading economy
And I don't laugh and take this thing for fun, I said no
We need to have praise in god
'Fore our life is done

[Chorus]
So, I'm a, I'm a serious man
No, don't be sitting with them heathens
Me, I'm a serious man
Seem like the trouble again for them
Me, I'm a serious man
No, don't be gossip with no heathens
Me, I'm a serious man
That's what I am

'Cause life ain't no jokin' business

No, no life ain't no jokin' business

[Chorus]
'Cause, I'm a, I'm a serious man
No, don't be gossip with them heathens
Me, I'm a serious man
Seem like, the trouble, it come for them
Me, I'm a serious man
No, don't be sitting with them heathens
Me, I'm a serious man
That's what I am