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Artist: James Brown
Canonical path: /james-brown/people-get-up-and-drive-your-funky-soul
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People Get Up And Drive Your Funky Soul
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People Get Up And Drive Your Funky Soul
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Raise up, get yourself together
And drive that funky soul
Get up, get yourself together
And drive your funky soul
They're doing it down in Nassau
Drive that funky soul
They're doing it by the beach, hah
Driving that funky soul
New York, get yourself together
And drive your funky soul
Let your body pop
And let your feelings flow
Raise up, get yourself together
And drive that funky soul
When I say Sagittarius
Drive that funky soul
When I say Pisces, holler
And drive your funky soul
When I say Gemini, heh
When I say Capricorn, WOAH!
Drive your funky soul
When I say Scorpio, Virgo
If I say Cancer
Can you drive that funky soul?
Raise up, get yourself together
And drive your funky soul
Slaughter, Get on up, get yourself together
Drive that funky soul
Leo, get yourself together
And drive your funky soul
Aquarius, get yourself together
And drive that funky soul
Get up, get yourself together
And drive your funky soul (x2)
Fred, get yourself together
And drive that funky soul
Drivin' drivin, I need some money
Do you need some money?
Drive your funky soul
The cats on the corner
Drive that funky soul
The girl that's standing out there
Drive that
Raise up, get yourself together
And drive that funky soul
Fred, hit it! Hit it!
(solo)
In Nassau and Germany, they're driving that funky soul
In Georgia, they're driving that funky soul
They're driving that funky soul in Washington and Baltimore
Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago
St. Louis, Houston, I said Dallas, Waco
Next door neighbor, they're driving that funky soul
Raise up, get yourself together
And drive your funky soul
Raise up, get yourself together
And drive that funky soul
(instrumental)
And I believe they're driving themselves
Driving that funky soul
In Houston, Texas, they're getting themselves together
With the funky soul
In Mobile, Alabama, they getting that funky soul
Raise up, get yourself together
And drive that funky soul
Los Angeles, raise up, get yourself together
And drive that funky soul
Birmingham,raise up, get yourself together
And drive that funky soul
On the Isle of Mark (?) raise up, get yourself together
And drive that funky soul
Going to get it, going to get it
Got to get some money and drive that funky soul
Got to get some money, got to get some money
I need a little bit of money, oh yeah
I need a little bit of money
Fred, Fred, I need 1 million
2 million, 3 million
Brother? (Yeah) Will 1 million be enough?
(Better get 2)
But since the man got 3, we better get 3, can you understand, we can use 3, can we use 3
Take 'em on home, Fred
Get yourself together
Amd drive that funky soul
(during solo)
There it is, there it is,
There it is
Raise up
Raise up (screams)
Raise up
Raise up
Raise on up, get yourself together
And drive that funky soul
(Spoken:)
You don't miss nothing you never had
But you miss so much you wish you could get, HAH
I guess you can put that together
It takes a man to find a woman
It takes a woman to find what a man used to be
Get up
Get on up
Everybody needs somebody, drive that funky soul
Raise up, drive that funky soul
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