"It's a Man's Man's Man's World" is a song by James Brown and Betty Jean Newsome. Brown recorded it on February 16, 1966 in a New York studio and released it as a single later that year. It reached #1 on the Billboard R&B chart and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its title is a pun on the 1963 comedy film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
This is a man's world, this is a man's world But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl
You see, man made the cars to take us over the road Man made the trains to carry heavy loads Man made electric light to take us out of the dark Man made the boat for the water, like Noah made the ark
This is a man's, man's, man's world But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl
Man thinks about a little baby girls and a baby boys Man makes them happy 'cause man makes them toys And after man has made everything, everything he can You know that man makes money to buy from other man
This is a man's world But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl
He's lost in the wilderness He's lost in bitterness