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1966 single by James Brown

This article is about the song. For the album, see It's a Man's Man's Man's World (album). For other uses, see It's a Man's World (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

"It's a Man's Man's Man's World" is a song written by James Brown and Betty Jean Newsome.

Brown recorded it on February 16, 1966, in a New York City studio and released it as a single later that year.

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It reached No. 1 on the BillboardR&B chart and No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[2][3] Its title is a word play on the 1963 comedy film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Song

The song is written in the key of E-flat minor. The lyrics, which Rolling Stone characterized as "biblically chauvinistic",^[4] attribute all the works of modern civilization (the car, the train, the boat ("Like Noah made the ark"), and the electric light) to the efforts of men, but claim that it all would