| Hey, watch out for your foot!
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| Tell me who’s that, man
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| Can you go to Beachside?
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| (Hit it!)
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| Gettin' back, gettin' back, back to the bass-iks
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| Gettin' back, gettin' back, back to the bass-iks
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| Gettin' back, gettin' back, back to the bass-iks
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| (RAYMOND!) gettin' back, gettin' back… oh, shoot…
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| (Raymond, in this house!)
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| Oh, uh… oh man, I gotta go home…
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| (I mean, right now!) mama callin'
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| (Im'ma tell your daddy!)
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| Raymond… Raymond T. Funkster!
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| Boy, don’t you hear your mama calling you?
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| You gotta go to chuch in the morning, boy!
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| I don’t wanna get you out of jail! |
| Out there hangin' with George Clinton and
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| Frankie Lymon, and… get on in here!
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| (Hey, come on Ray!) …wait a minute, may- maybe we can get him to come back
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| outside, man, and do somethin' funky with us
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| (Ray, come on Ray!)
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| (Ray, come on Ray!)
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding-dong
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding-dong
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding
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| I’m gonna bet back, back to the bass-iks
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| There’s a feeling that comes over me
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| Every time I hear the bass in my ear
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| Now, it’s a feeling I’d like to share with you
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| So come and travel with me back to the bass-iks
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| (Ray, come on Ray!)
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| (Ray, come on Ray!)
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding-dong
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding-dong
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding
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| I’m gonna bet back, back to the bass-iks
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| Back, ooh…
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| I’m gonna bet back, back to the bass-iks
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| Sho-boo-do-bop, bop, bop
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| Sho-boo-do-bop, bop, bop
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| When your life begins to bring you down
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| Try to remember where you started from
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| And if you remember where you started from
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| You will soon find your way back to the bass-iks
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| (Ray, come on Ray!)
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| (Ray, come on Ray!)
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding-dong
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding-dong
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding
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| I’m gonna bet back, back to the bass-iks
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| Back, ooh…
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| I’m gonna bet back, back to the bass-iks
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| Have you ever noticed, when you hear these sounds
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| How they make your body surely want to move
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| You need to remember just what makes you dance
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| Yes you, will come back…
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| Back to the bass-iks, back to the bass-iks
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| (Ray, come on Ray!)
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| (Ray, come on Ray!)
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| Tear the roof off, we’re gonna tear the roof off the mothersucker
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| Tear the roof off the sucker
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding-dong
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding
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| Bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
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| Bow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
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| (Back, get back, get back, get back
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| Get back, get back) ooh… (back to the bass-iks)
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| Said I’m gonna get back
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| Don’t you know I’ve gotta get back
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| Gotta get back, gotta do it
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| (Get back) said I’m gonna get back
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| (Back to the bass-iks) said I’m…
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| (Ray, come on Ray!)
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| (Ray, come on Ray!)
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding-dong
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding-dong
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding-dong
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding-dong
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| Bama-lama, lama-lama-lama-ding
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| Bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
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| Bow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah… |