| Turn the beat around
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| Love to hear the percussion
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| Turn it upside down
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| Love to hear the percussion
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| Love to hear it Blow horns you sure sound pretty
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| Your violins keep movin' to the nitty gritty
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| When you hear the scratch of the guitars scratchin'
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| Then you’ll know that rhythm carries all the action
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| Woah!
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| Turn the beat around (turn the beat around)
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| Love to hear the percussion (mah mah mah…)
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| Turn it upside down
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| Love to hear the percussion
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| Love to hear it Flute player play your flute 'cause
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| I know that you want to get your thing off
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| But you see I’ve made up my mind about it It’s got to be the rhythm, no doubt about it, woah woah
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| 'Cause when the guitar player start playing
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| With the syncopated rhythm, with the scratch, scratch, scratch
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| Makes me wanna move my body yeah, yeah, yeah
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| And when the drummer starts beating that beat
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| He nails that beat with the syncopated rhythm
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| With the rat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat on the drums, hey
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| Turn the beat around (turn the beat around)
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| Love to hear the percussion
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| Turn it upside down
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| Love to hear the percussion
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| Love to hear it Ohhhh!!!
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| Turn the beat around
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| Love to hear the percussion
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| Turn it upside down
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| Love to hear the percussion
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| Love to hear it Turn the beat around! |