Written-By – William DeVaughn. B. I've Never Found A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do). Written-By – A. Isbell, B. T. Jones, E. Floyd. Original sound recording owned by TEC Records Inc. Side A published by Intersong Music Ltd. Side B published by Mews Music Ltd. Other Versions (4 of 4) View All. Cat.

Be Thankful for What You Got" is a soul song written and first performed by William DeVaughn.

William Edward DeVaughn Jr. (born November 28, 1947, in Washington, . is an American R&B/soul singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known for the million-selling hit song "Be Thankful for What You Got" in 1974. DeVaughn was a salaried government employee as a drafting technician, and a part-time singer. He wrote a song called "A Cadillac Don't Come Easy", which was eventually re-written to become "Be Thankful for What You Got", in 1972.

Be Thankful for What You've Got by Massive Attack (1991). Hip-Hop, Rap, R&B. Be Thankful (Duet With Erykah Badu) by Omar feat. Also covered by Emily Gimble from the Album Even More Songs Of Route 66: From Here To There July 17, 2012.

Within 30 seconds you’ve entered a different landscape in your brain, it makes you switch everything off. To me this is a perfect summer song: it has this very trippy, slow tempo. I love this song so much. I love the Persuasions sample at the start, Popcaan’s Jamaican influence, and the Young Thug verse is amazing – there’s a line in it where he says, I’ma ride in that pussy like a stroller, which I think is brilliant. Megan Thee Stallion is a female rapper from Texas and this is my favourite track from the album she dropped a few months ago. It’s a strip-club song: my friends and I twerk to it.

Just be thankful for what you've got. Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac. Diamond in the back, sunroof top. Diggin' the scene. TV antennas in the back. You may not have a car at all. But remember brothers and sisters. You can still stand tall. Just be thankful for what you've got. Diggin the scene. With a gangsta lean, wooh-ooh-ooh.

Seminal 1974 release from the album Be Thankful For What you got, then released again 6 years later on his 1980 album Figures Can't Calculate, another one of those tracks that's been covered by quite a few artists over the yrs, but none like the original with lyris like "Diamond in the back, sun roof top, making the scene with the. gangsta lean" appropriate for driving this time of the year.