Better Not Look Down
by 
Will Jennings 
Joe Sample 
recording of 1978 
from 
King Of The Blues 4 CD Box Set (MCA MCAD4-10677) 
I've been around and I've seen some things 
People moving faster than the speed of sound 
Faster than the speeding bullet 
People living like Superman 
All day and all night 
And I won't say if it's wrong or if it's right 
I'm pretty fast myself 
But I do have some advice to pass along 
Along in the chorus of this song 
Better not look down, if you want to keep on flying 
Put the hammer down, keep it full speed ahead 
Better not look back, or you might just wind up crying 
You can keep it moving, if you don't look down 
An old girl friend of mine showed up the other day 
That girl have lived in love and for love, 
and over love, and under love all her life 
If the arrows from cupid's bow that had 
passed through her heart had been sticking 
Out of her body she would have looked like a porcupine, 
And she asked me "B.B. do you think I've lived my life all wrong?" 
And I said: "The only advice I have to pass 
along in the chorus of this song", girl 
Better not look down, if you want to keep on flying 
Put the hammer down, keep it full speed ahead 
Better not look back, or you might just wind up crying 
You can keep it moving, if you don't look down 
I was walking down the street at sunrise one morning, in London, England 
And there was a very large Rolls Royce limousine, 
pulling slowly along the street 
And in that Rolls Royce was the queen of England, looking tired 
Just go back from a party, and the queen leaned out and, 
she said: "Aren't you B.B. King?" 
She said: "Oh B.B., sometimes it's so hard to pull things together. 
Could you tell me what you think I ought to do?" 
And I said: 
Better not look down, if you want to keep on flying 
Put the hammer down, keep it full speed ahead 
Better not look back, or you might just wind up crying 
You can keep it moving, if you don't look down 
Better not look down, if you want to keep on flying 
Put the hammer down, keep it full speed ahead 
Better not look back, or you might just wind up crying 
You can keep it moving, if you don't look down