Lyrics:

Friends seen an’ unseen
To you that are ridin’ along in your automobile
Tto you that are sitting at you table
I greet you with the holy word ’peace’

For with my infinite mind I thinks constructively
And I’m able to draw whatsaever I want
Into my immediate surroundin’,
For yo’ minds are my mind

And my mind is yo’ mind
And I’m sendin’ out my mind to you,
You, an’ you

You’ve got to remain to bein’ yourself
Yyou cannot be nobody else,
It ain’t no use tryin’ bein’ no whirlwind

An’ uh, jumpin’ here an’ an’ playin’ checkers
With your own life,
That ain’t gonna work, baby

Now repeat these words behind me:
’I am what I am’ - now that’s all you are
You are what you believe you are - stretch out

So many of you all in radioland, you’re not stretchin’ out
But I want to say one thing to you today
It makes no differen’ who you are,
What you’re doin’, what you’re tryin’ to do or want to do,
Repeat these words
I am what I am and that’s all I am - is what I am’
That’s all I, look, that, that’s all I am is what I am and I’m it

Make no differen’ whether it’s in the mornin’,
The evenin’, or in the night time
Hair breakin’ out, bald headed - it’s the same thing
You are what you believe you are

’Cause some of you all are sittin’ there right now,
Amen, an’ tell if you had a necktie on yo’, on now, right now,
A whirlwind would come along an’ choke you to death,
That’s how bad luck some of you all in

Some of you all in such a bad luck right now
That you couldn’t hit a barn with a baseball bat
Some of you all in such a bad luck right now, amen,
If you was to sit down by-a-by-men, by a pond, amen,

Somethin’ would come up an’ stick ya’
You just in that bad a’ luck

I am what I am
Now repeat this behind me:
’I am what I am and that is all I am and I am it’
Yes, I know what you’re sayin’
Stretch out - oh, yes, stretch out'