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Release: December 18, 1990
… Y'all want this party started, right?
Y'all want this party started quickly, right?
Y'all want this party started, right?
Y'all want this party started quickly, right?
Play that beat, play that beat. Bang!
Play that beat, play that beat. Bang 'em!
Play that beat, play that beat. Bang!
Play that beat, play that beat. Bang 'em!
The party is packed and I rap.
There's my man hangin' out at the back.
So I cruise, slide through the dance floor.
I never seen a club so "hype" before.
Get on the mic and get raw,
back to back, front to front,
Ev'rybody dance to the new sound:
rock 'n' roll, soul to soul.
Now, bring it on down from the bottom to the top
and the top to the bottom. Hmmm.
People ev'rywhere, they jump,
they shake, they jam their ear, oh yeah.
So, loosen your body and let me take control.
We're gonna rock and roll.
We're gonna move your soul.
We're gonna make you groove.
Whether you're into club or dance or rap or acid,
Throw your hands in the air.
Rock 'n' roll will grow and flow and yo,
it will develop into a new form,
and then swarm come back again,
tear it up and transform from
Ed Sullivan was on the T.V. screen
to be seen with the Beatles
The Who, The Doors, The Rolling Stones
and even I've dibbled a bit to get wit'.
Helpin' to prove that it's legit, yet
parents dissed it back to the days
the same way the dissed rap.
Are you amazed? So D.J.'s
get on up and dance, Yeah.
We're gonna rock and roll.
We're gonna move your soul.
We're gonna make you groove.
Get on up and dance, yeah.
Play that beat, play that beat. Bang!
Play that beat, play that beat. Bang 'em!
On the dance floor is where we all get raw
like a kid in a candy store.
So, get up, get out your seat and arise.
Ev'rybody, ev'rybody up and get "live".
The C+C Music Factory is mastery
and full fo jams that have to be pumped
Live from Brooklyn out to the California seashore,
we came to rock and roll,
to get on down to somethin' funky with soul.
Rob and Dave seduced it and I juiced it,
spruced it, mass produced it, and you proofed it.
Party people, if your havin' a good time
and singin' along to my rhyme,
this goes out to the young and to the old,
Here we go rock and roll.
We're gonna move your soul.
We're gonna make you groove.
Ev'rybody move. Ev'rybody move, yeah.
We're gonna rock and roll.
We're gonna move your soul.
We're gonna make you groove.
Ev'rybody move. Ev'rybody move, yeah.
We're gonna rock and roll to please your soul.
Roll and roll to please your soul.
We're gonna rock and roll to please your soul.
Roll and roll to please your soul.
Robert Clivilles / Freedom (frederick B.) Williams