Turn the beat around
Love to hear percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear percussion
Love to hear it
Blow horns you sure sound pretty
Your violins keep moving
To the nitty gritty
When you hear the scratch of
The guitars scratching
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 want to
Get your thing off
see I've made made
Up my mind about it
So rhythm, No doubt about it
'Cause when the guitar
Player start playing
With the syncopated rhythm
With the scratch, scratch, scratch
Makes me wanna 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
Turn the beat around
Love to hear percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear percussion
You should be dancing
You should be dancing
Can turn a grey sky blue
I can make it rain when 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 ncomplete
And I'm so blue
cause I can't get next to you
Can't get next to you, baby
Can't get next to you
Can't get next to you, baby
Can't get next to you
Can fly like a bird in the sky
I can buy anything that money can buy
I can turn a river into a raging flood
I can live forever if I so decide
Ain't happy am I with all the powers
That I possess
‘Cause I can't get next to you
Can't get next to you, No way
Can't get next to you
Can't get next to you, baby
Can't get next to you
Can't get next to you, baby
Can't get next to you
Can't get next to you, baby
Can't get next to you
Can't get next to you, baby
Can't get next to you,
You're the key to my happiness
You're blowin' my mind
Can't get next to you