Lyrics If You Don't Look Around - The Kingston Trio

If You Don't Look Around

They told me doncha 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.»
So don’t tell me there ain’t no time for singin''cause I don’t need no empty
words from you.
If they’re sayin’who ain’t free then they’re sayin’it right to me.
So, go back home.
I’ll wake you when we’re through.