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Oh . . . mmm
I know a place
Ain't nobody cryin'
Ain't nobody worried
Ain't no smilin' faces
Mmm, no no
Lyin' to the races
Help me, come on, come on
Somebody, help me now
(I'll take you there)
Help me, ya'all
(I'll take you there)
Help me now
(I'll take you there)
Oh!
(I'll take you there)
Oh! Oh! Mercy!
(I'll take you there)
Oh, let me take you there
(I'll take you there)
Oh-oh! Let me take you there!
(I'll take you there)
Play your, play your piano now
All right
Ah . . . do it . . . do it
Come on now
Play on it, play on it
Daddy daddy daddy
Ooh, Lord
All right now
Baby, easy now
Now, come on, little lady
All right
Dum-dum-dum-dum
Sock it, sock it
Ah, oh, oh!
I know a place, ya'all
(I'll take you there)
Ain't nobody cryin'
(I'll take you there)
Ain't nobody worried
(I'll take you there)
No smilin' faces
(I'll take you there)
Uh-uh
(Lyin' to the races)
(I'll take you there)
Oh, no
Oh!
(I'll take you there)
Oh oh oh!
(I'll take you there)
Mercy now!
(I'll take you there)
I'm callin' callin' callin' mercy
(I'll take you there)
Mercy mercy!
(I'll take you there)
Let me
(I'll take you there)
Oh oh!
I'll take you there
(I'll take you there)
Oh oh oh oh
Wanna take you there!
(I'll take you there)
Just take me by the hand
Let me
(I'll take you there)
Let me, let me, let me lead the way
Oh!
(I'll take you there)
Let me take you there
(I'll ta
I'll Take You There
Staple Singers
Oh . . . mmm
I know a place
Ain't nobody cryin'
Ain't nobody worried
Ain't no smilin' faces
Mmm, no no
Lyin' to the races
Help me, come on, come on
Somebody, help me now
(I'll take you there)
Help me, ya'all
(I'll take you there)
Help me now
(I'll take you there)
Oh!
(I'll take you there)
Oh! Oh! Mercy!
(I'll take you there)
Oh, let me take you there
(I'll take you there)
Oh-oh! Let me take you there!
(I'll take you there)
Play your, play your piano now
All right
Ah . . . do it . . . do it
Come on now
Play on it, play on it
Daddy daddy daddy
Ooh, Lord
All right now
Baby, easy now
Now, come on, little lady
All right
Dum-dum-dum-dum
Sock it, sock it
Ah, oh, oh!
I know a place, ya'all
(I'll take you there)
Ain't nobody cryin'
(I'll take you there)
Ain't nobody worried
(I'll take you there)
No smilin' faces
(I'll take you there)
Uh-uh
(Lyin' to the races)
(I'll take you there)
Oh, no
Oh!
(I'll take you there)
Oh oh oh!
(I'll take you there)
Mercy now!
(I'll take you there)
I'm callin' callin' callin' mercy
(I'll take you there)
Mercy mercy!
(I'll take you there)
Let me
(I'll take you there)
Oh oh!
I'll take you there
(I'll take you there)
Oh oh oh oh
Wanna take you there!
(I'll take you there)
Just take me by the hand
Let me
(I'll take you there)
Let me, let me, let me lead the way
Oh!
(I'll take you there)
Let me take you there
(I'll take you there)
Let me take you there!
(I'll take you there)
Ain't no smilin' faces
(I'll take you there)
Up in here, lyin' to the races
(I'll take you there)
You oughta, you gotta gotta come let me, let me
(I'll take you there)
Take you, take you, take you over there
(I'll take you there)
Ooh!
Oh! Oh!
All right
(I'll take you there)
Oh-oh! All right!
(I'll take you there)
Oh! Oh!
(I'll take you there)
Mmmm . . . ah
Oh! Yeah!
(I'll take you there)
Whoa!
(I'll take you there)
Let me lead the way
(I'll take you there)
(transcribed by NormalGuy)
Oh . . . mmm
I know a place
Ain't nobody cryin'
Ain't nobody worried
Ain't no smilin' faces
Mmm, no no
Lyin' to the races
Help me, come on, come on
Somebody, help me now
(I'll take you there)
Help me, ya'all
(I'll take you there)
Help me now
(I'll take you there)
Oh!
(I'll take you there)
Oh! Oh! Mercy!
(I'll take you there)
Oh, let me take you there
(I'll take you there)
Oh-oh! Let me take you there!
(I'll take you there)
Play your, play your piano now
All right
Ah . . . do it . . . do it
Come on now
Play on it, play on it
Daddy daddy daddy
Ooh, Lord
All right now
Baby, easy now
Now, come on, little lady
All right
Dum-dum-dum-dum
Sock it, sock it
Ah, oh, oh!
I know a place, ya'all
(I'll take you there)
Ain't nobody cryin'
(I'll take you there)
Ain't nobody worried
(I'll take you there)
No smilin' faces
(I'll take you there)
Uh-uh
(Lyin' to the races)
(I'll take you there)
Oh, no
Oh!
(I'll take you there)
Oh oh oh!
(I'll take you there)
Mercy now!
(I'll take you there)
I'm callin' callin' callin' mercy
(I'll take you there)
Mercy mercy!
(I'll take you there)
Let me
(I'll take you there)
Oh oh!
I'll take you there
(I'll take you there)
Oh oh oh oh
Wanna take you there!
(I'll take you there)
Just take me by the hand
Let me
(I'll take you there)
Let me, let me, let me lead the way
Oh!
(I'll take you there)
Let me take you there
(I'll take you there)
Let me take you there!
(I'll take you there)
Ain't no smilin' faces
(I'll take you there)
Up in here, lyin' to the races
(I'll take you there)
You oughta, you gotta gotta come let me, let me
(I'll take you there)
Take you, take you, take you over there
(I'll take you there)
Ooh!
Oh! Oh!
All right
(I'll take you there)
Oh-oh! All right!
(I'll take you there)
Oh! Oh!
(I'll take you there)
Mmmm . . . ah
Oh! Yeah!
(I'll take you there)
Whoa!
(I'll take you there)
Let me lead the way
(I'll take you there
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| About this ... | - This was the first of two #1 hits for the Staple Singers. The other is "Let's Do It Again." The Staple Singers were among the first groups to move from Gospel to inspirational Soul music. Said lead singer Mavis Staples: "When we heard Dr. Martin Luther King preach, we said, 'If he can preach this, we can sing it.'"
- Stax Records president Al Bell (born Avertis Isabell) wrote this after attending the funeral of his little brother, who was shot to death. Says Bell: " "I went out in the backyard in my father's home. He had an old school bus there parked that was not running. I went back there and sat on the hood of that bus thinking about all that was happening. And all of a sudden, I hear this music in my head. And I heard these lyrics: 'I know a place, ain't nobody worried, ain't nobody crying, and ain't no smiling faces lying to the races, I'll take you there.' "I heard it, and I heard the music. And it wouldn't leave, it stayed there. kept trying to write other verses, but I couldn't. Nothing worked - there was nothing left to say."
- Bell brought out this song at the end of a recording session with the band. Says Bell: "Mavis couldn't get into it, she couldn't feel it, so I stood there on the floor and tried to sing it to the guys, as they got the music and they got into it. After getting it down, later on, I came back and sat with Mavis and, after a while, she started feeling it and giving in to that rhythm. Of course, she took it to heights that only a Mavis Staples can take it. Nobody else could do it justice, and I guess it was supposed to be that way."
- General Public recorded this in 1994 for the movie Threesome. Dave Wakeling of General Public tells the story: "This guy I knew who put songs in movies, he was just starting at it, but he ended up becoming very big at it and very successful. And he said that he'd got this movie called Threesome that he was looking for music for, and they wanted kind of suggestive songs to go with this soundtrack. He'd got a big long list of songs that we'd thought up, and he actually first approached me, 'Would you like to do 'Stuck In The Middle With You,' and I was like, 'No. Thanks for the thought. No.' I noticed 'I'll Take You There' was on that list. And 'I'll Take You There' had always appealed to me as a song, because there was a Harry J & the Allstars instrumental called 'Liquidator' about an assassin. And it's the bass line to 'I'll Take You There.' In fact, it came out in Jamaica and in England two years before 'I'll Take You There' came out in America. And 'I'll Take You There' is, for all intents and purposes, just the 'Liquidator' with lyrics on the top. And so I thought that would be good, we could do a version of 'I'll Take You There' for this movie, and we could try and knock as many pieces of the original 'Liquidator' back into the tune and see if anybody dared say anything. And of course because it had been a dirty secret for 30 years, nobody dared mention it now. Even when we said, 'Well, actually, there's a lot of this song 'Liquidator' in there, should we mention that in the publishing?' 'Nonono, just leave it.' And we did. And it went to like #1 on the dance chart, so that was it." (Dave Wakeling is a founding member of The English Beat. Read his full interview in the Songfacts Interviews. His website is davewakeling.com.)
- The Staple Singers were backed up by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section on this. A group of session musicians formed in 1967, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm section owned their own studio and played on many famous recordings by artists like Rod Stewart, Bob Seger, and Aretha Franklin.
- This was performed by Tweet, Marianne Faithfull (Mick Jagger's ex-girlfriend), and Taryn Manning in 2002 ads for The Gap. It was part of a campaign with the tag line "For Every Generation."
- The female rap group Salt 'n' Pepa sampled this in their 1990 song "Let's Talk About Sex."
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