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They Don't Want Music

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They Don't Want Music

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They don't want music, they don't know how to use it

All they want is (a boom, boom, boom, boom)

Hey y'all, John Coltraine yeah he plays the sax

Me, myself I love to max

Up in the studio laying tracks

Burn it on the CD, melt the wax

And now I'm feeling fine

Coz daily music's on my mind

And I feel mellow

When I watch the girl play the cello

Hello to all my fellow peers in here for the quality

Music quality, yeah

That'll be the focus in the top pick of the day

So pass the peas like we used to say

Pass the beats like they used to say

Pass the phunk like they used to say

That's my joint like we used to say

Syncopation the true school way

Chorus

I don't know what you came to do

I came to drop the phunk on you

Depends on that sonic sound

But you know what?

They don't want music

They don't want music

They just want (a boom, boom, boom boom boom)

(A boom, boom, boom boom boom)

They don't want music, they don't know how to use it

They don't want music

They don't want music

They don't want music, they don't know how to use it

The good back horn

They don't want music, they don't know how to use it

All they want is (a boom, boom, boom, boom, boom boom boom)

Oo, lala aw wee wee

Nowadays music is all about fee

The soul is caged no bits now free

Unless the rhyme was rocked by me

I got the balls to bang (baw ba-ba-baw, ba-ba-baw, ba-baw bang)

Yeah, steady, just doing my thang (steady, just steady, just doing my own thang)

I just do it (ha!)

I just do it you know

My momma said to do what you know

So I'ma do what I know

James Brown gave me the fluid

That means a baby could do it

The Peas will do it so

Do it, do it, do it

Get up on the stage and release my fluid

Do my thing, do it through the music

Phunkafied and therapeutic

Wait a minute!

You got to rock with the phunk (if you wanna have a good time) [2x]

You got to roll with the phunk (if you wanna have a good time) [2x]

You got to roll with the phunk (if you wanna be sweet and fine, hey! Hey! Hey!)

Rock with the punk (if you gonna have a good time)

You got to roll with the phunk (if you wanna have a good time)

A woman that'll phunk your horn now (gimme that phunky horn!)

Play that phunky horn now (gimme that phunky horn)

Gimme that phunky horn now (gimme that phunky horn)

Hey! Hey! Hey!

Instrumental

You got to rock with the phunk (if you wanna have a good time)

You've got to roll with the phunk (if you wanna have a good time)

You got to dance with the phunk (if you wanna be sweet and fine)

I said I like to dance with the phunk (if you wanna be sweet and fine)

You've got to shake with the phunk (if you wanna have a good time)

Shaking shaking shaking with the phunk (if you wanna have a good time)

Gimme that phunky horn (gimme that phunky horn)

I need that phunky horn (I need that phunky horn)

Play that phunky horn now (gimme that phunky horn)

A break down, a break down, a break, get down

Dance everybody move your body through the music

Get it started, get into it

Come on everybody do it

You've got to dance through the music

People doing what you're doing

People grooving with the music

You've got to roll with the phunk

Roll with your phunk (if you're wanna have a good time)

R-O-double-L keep rolling with the phunk (if you're wanna have a good time)

And roll! To a phunky place

I'm rolling (where?)

To a to a to a phunky phunky place

I'm rolling! To a phunky place

I'll be there, I'll be there, I'll be there, I'll be there

It's phunky, phunk, phunk, phunk phunky

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