Track Title:               Sticks And Stones
Album Title:               Genius & Soul, The 50th Anv. Coll. Vol. 2

Prime Artist:              Ray Charles     (Robinson)
Arranger:                  Ray Charles     (Robinson)
Background Vocal:          The Raeletts
Drums:                     Milt Turner

Bass:                      Edgar Willis
Saxophone:                 Leroy (Hog) Cooper
Saxophone:                 David (Fathead) Newman
Saxophone:                 Hank Crawford     (Bennie C.)

Trumpet:                   Martin Banks
Trumpet:                   John Hunt
Producer:                  Sid Feller
Written by:                Henry Glover

Written by:                Titus Turner


Lyrics:
People talkin' tryin' to break us up
Why won't they let us be
Bricks and stones may break my bones
but talk don't bother me

People talkin' tryin' to break us up
When they know that I love you so
So I don't care what the people may say
I'll never never let you go

I've been abused
(I've been abused)
In my heart
(my heart's been torn)
I've been accused
(I've been accused)
I've been 'buked
(I've been 'buked and I've been stung)

People talkin' tryin' to break us up, yeah
Scandlizin' my name
They'll say anything just to make me feel bad
Yes anything to make me shame

(bridge)

I've been abused
(I've been abused)
In my heart
(my heart's been torn)
I've been accused
(I've been accused)
I've been 'buked
(I've been 'buked and I've been stung)

People talkin' tryin' to break us, yup
And they scandlizin' my name
They'll say anything just to make me feel bad
Yes anything to make me shame

Yes I know
(oh, yes I know)
Yes I know it
(oh, yes I know)
And you know it, too
(oh, yes I know)
Don't you know it, too
(oh, yes I know)
Ohhhhh, don't you know it too

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