Turn the beat around
Love to hear percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear percussion
Love to hear it

Blow a horn you just sound pretty
Your body just keep movin' to the nifty bitten
When you hear the scratch of the guitars scratchin'
Then you'll know that rhythm carries all the action

Turn the beat around
Love to hear percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear percussion
Love to hear it
Turn the beat around
Love to hear percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear percussion
Love to hear it

Flute player play your flute 'cause
I know that you won't find it hard to hang on
But you see I've made up my mind about it, hey
It's the rhythm, there's no doubt about it, hey
when the guitar pleh pah pleh
With the syncopated rhythm, with the scratch, scratch, scratch
Wanna make me move my body, yeah, yeah, yeah
And when the drummer starts beating that beat
He nails that beat with the syncopated rhythm
With the rat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat on the drums

Turn the beat around
Love to hear percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear percussion
Love to hear it
Love to hear it
Love to hear it
Love to hear it
Love to hear it, ha!

Turn the beat around
Love to hear percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear percussion
(Music)

You should be dancing, yeah
You should be dancing, yeah

I can turn the gray sky blue
I can make it rain, whenever I want it to
I can build a castle from a single grain of sand
I can make a ship sail, on dry land
But my life is incomplete and I'm so blue
'Cause I can't get next to you
I can't get next to you, babe
I can't get next to you
I can't get next to you, babe
I can't get next to you

I can fly like a bird in the sky
I can buy anything that money can't buy
I can turn a river into a raging fire
I can live forever if I so desired

You won't find an unhappy man with all the powers that I possess
'Cause I can't get next to you, oh

I can't get next to you, babe (no way)
I can't get next to you
I can't get next to you, babe
I can't get next to you

I can't get next to you, babe (I can't get next to who?)
I can't get next to you (Is you! That's who)
I can't get next to you, babe
I can't get next to you
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