[Verse 1]
You know my brothers and I was raised in Cincinnati, you know
Cincinnati, Ohio
And I remember when we were kids, you know, we used to walk
To the woods, you know, and go black berry picking
Swinging our baskets on our arms
Skipping down the road, you know
And Kelly used to have an expression he used to say back then
And we made a song out of that expression
I remember the words of it
It used to go a little bit like this
"The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice"
He said these words

[Chorus]
The blacker the berry
He said the sweeter the juice
The blacker the berry
Sweeter the juice

[Verse 2]
You know he digged blackberries so much
And everywhere he would go he would use that as his excuse, you know
For staying out late at night
And my brother Rudolph, he used to like strawberries
If I remember correctly, at the time
And at the time my thing was wild cherries
I remember the three of us used to steal tomatoes
And lay on the ground and peel all kind of iced potatoes
[Chorus]
And sing the blacker the berry, huh
The sweeter the juice
Aw, yeah, alright
Lord, have mercy

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
Yeah, yeah
We used to strip down bananas
And throw the peelings away at the same time in the street, you know
And when it got hot, we just drank all the lemonade we could get
'Til we knocked ourselves clean off our feet
And then we walked along

[Chorus]
Singing the blacker the berry
The sweeter the juice
Come on, y’all
Black berry
The sweeter the juice
Help me sing this song
Black berries
The sweeter, the sweeter the juice
[Interlude]
Now how would you look eating a green berry, you know?
Aw, what's the use

[Bridge]
Swing your basket on your arm
And sing and sing and sing and sing this song
"The blacker the berry" all at the same time
The blacker the berry
Yeah, yeah
The sweeter the juice
I like black berries
And everywhere I go, that's my excuse

[Verse 4]
I can still hear them singing the song
If you listen hard enough, you’ll hear, listen to that again
The sweeter the juice
The blacker the berry, that's the way he sung it
You know he sung it like, "Blacker the berry"
I like black berries, that's my excuse
Sing it soft, Kelly

[Outro]
The black, the black, the black, the black, the black, the black, the black
Sweeter the juice
Sing it one more time, hey
Little baby
The sweeter the juice
I like black berries
I like black berries, that's my excuse
Sing the, sing the, sing, sing the song
Blacker the berry
Sweeter the juice
Blacker the berries
Sweeter the juice
I like black berries
I like black berries, that's my excuse
And we would walk along
And sing, sing, sing the song
Come on, sing
Lord, have mercy
Keep on singing
The blacker the berry
The sweeter the juice
I like black berries
I like black berries, that's my excuse
Yeah, yeah
The blacker the berries
Black berry