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The star of the show, hard working, Mr. Dynamite, James Brown!
Looka here, I gotta get up and do my thing
Okay, well let me kind of move these things around here, you know
Get up and do my thing, understand
Can I really get into it? (Yeah!)
Can I get into this thing, really? (Yeah!)
Like, like a sex machine? (Yeah!)
Moving? (Yeah) Doin' it? (Yeah!)
Can I get into it? (Yeah!)
Can I get into all our things? (Yeah!)
We're ready to get into it (Yeah!)
I'ma count it off, Jab
One, two, three, four!
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Stay on the scene (get on up)
Like a sex machine (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Stay on the scene (get on up)
Like a sex machine (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Stay on the scene (get on up)
Sex machine (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Stay on the scene (get on up)
Like a sex machine (get on up)
Help me
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Stay on the scene (get on up)
Like a sex machine (get on up)
Wait a minute!
Shake your arm then lose your form
Stay on the scene like a sex machine
You got to have the feeling, Byrd, sure as you're born
Get it together, right on, right on
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Stay on the scene (get on up)
Like a sex machine (get on up)
Right on, right on (right on, right on)
Right on, right on (right on, right on)
Right on, right on (right on, right on)
Right on, right on (right on, right on)
Get up (get on up), huh!
Get up (get on up)
Stay on the scene (get on up)
Like a sex machine (get on up)
The way I like it, that's the way it is
You've got yours, ha, don't worry 'bout his
Get up (get on up)
Said get up (get on up)
Stay on the scene (get on up)
Like a lovin' machine (get on up), uh!
Get up (get on up)
Stay on the scene (get on up)
Like a lovin' machine (get on up)
Can I take 'em to the bridge, fellas? (Yeah!)
You ready to go to the bridge? (Yeah!)
Fellas, I don't know where you wanna go
But you ready? (Yeah!)
You ready to go to the bridge? (Yeah!)
You ready to go to it? (Yeah!)
Hit me, fellas, come on!
Come on!
Stay on the scene like a sex machine
Stay on the scene like a lovin' machine
Stay on the scene like a lovin' machine
The way I like it is the way it is
I've got yours, don't worry 'bout his
Stay on the scene like a lovin' machine
Stay on the scene like a lovin' machine
Stay on the scene like a lovin' machine
Stay on the scene, huh, like a lovin' machine
Stay on the scene, stay on the scene
Can I go back to the top? (Yeah!)
Can I start one more again? (Yeah!)
Can I start like I did before? (Yeah!)
Can I start like I did before? (Yeah!)
You ready, can I count it? (Yeah!)
Should I hit it? (Yeah!)
Hit me now, come on!
*Screams*
Get on up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Stay on the scene (get on up)
Like a sex machine (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Stay on the scene (get on up)
Like a sex machine (get on up)
Byrd, taste of piano (get on up)
Taste of piano (get on up)
Hassan (Yeah?)
Taste of piano
Taste of piano (get on up), huh!
Huh!
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Stay on the scene (get on up)
Like a sex machine (get on up)
Can I (do it)
What? (Sex machine)
Can I (do it)
What? (Sex machine)
Can I (do it)
What? (Sex machine)
Can I (do it)
Tell me, what? (Sex machine)
Can I (do it)
What? (Sex machine)
Can I (do it)
What? (Sex machine)
Can I (do it)
Tell me! (Sex machine)
Can I (do it)
Uh! Uh! (Sex machine)
Got to, can I (do it)
Uh! Uh! Uh! (Sex machine)
Can I (do it)
*Screams* (Sex machine)
Good God, can I (do it)
Come on! (Sex machine)
Can I (do it)
I got to, got to, can I? (Sex machine)
Can I (do it)
Got to tell me (Sex machine)
Can I (do it)
Uh! (Sex machine)
Uh! (Do it)
Uh! (Do it)
Uh! (Do it)
Uh! (Do it)
Uh! (Do it)
Uh! (Do it)
Uh! (Do it)
Uh! (Sex machine) *Screams*
Get (do it)
God, get it (do it)
Get it, get it (do it)
Get it (do it)
Got to get it (do it)
Get it (do it)
Can I (do it)
What? (Sex machine)
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
I wanna go to the bridge one more time (one more time)
Can I go to the bridge? (Yeah!)
I wanna go to the bridge (Yeah!)
Should I go to the bridge in Augusta, Georgia (Yeah!)
Or should I go to the bridge in Cincinnati (Yeah!)
Maybe Washington, D.C. (Yeah!)
Or maybe Detroit (Yeah!)
Or maybe Baltimore (Yeah!)
Or maybe New York City (Yeah!)
Or maybe Miami, Florida (Yeah!)
Maybe Lost Angeles (Yeah!)
Maybe Lost Angeles (Yeah!)
Or maybe about the Bay Area (Yeah!)
Up around San Francisco and Oakland (Yeah!)
All across the (Yeah!)
I think I go to Nashville too (Yeah!)
Over to Memphis (Yeah!)
By the way of Chattanooga (Yeah!)
Atlanta, GA (Yeah!)
Lovely Atlanta (Yeah!)
Atlanta, GA (Yeah!)
I might go to Macon if you don't mind (Yeah!)
What about Birmingham? (Yeah!)
But you know I might try to call a few (Yeah!)
Is it alright if I go there, brother?
(Let's go to the chorus)
You wanna go to the chorus? (One more time)
You've got to go to the chorus? (One more time)
Aw you know I got to go (got to go)
You got to go (got to go)
Can I tell them about it? (Tell them about it)
Can I ask them to Get on Up one more time? (Yeah!)
Can I go to Miami? (Yeah!)
What about Richmond, Virginia? (Yeah!)
Maybe Raleigh, North Carolina (Yeah!)
Can you think of any more towns, fellas? I can't
We've got to go to Dayton
Or you can keep crying, Jabo, 'bout Mobile, ha ha
Keep worryin' 'bout Mobile (Mobile!)
But since I'm there, I'm going to New Orleans too, brother (Yeah!)
You know I'm just travelling, doing my thing (Yeah!)
Can I get into it? (Get into it)
Texas, Houston or Dallas? Houston or Dallas, which one?
(Both of 'em) Both of 'em?
Well we've got to go to San Antone, brother (Yeah!)
Can we go on over here? (Let's go)
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
I don't think you heard me, Byrd (tell me what it is)
I don't think you heard me (tell me one more time)
I don't think you heard me (tell me one more)
Get up (get on up)
Get on up (get on up)
Stay on the scene (get on up)
Like a sex machine (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Get up (get on up)
Stay on the scene (get on up)
Like a sex machine (get on up)
Can I go to the bridge, fellas? (Yeah!)
Is it alright if I go to the bridge, Chicken? (Yeah!)
You ain't saying nothing, Chicken, why don't you talk?
You don't wanna talk or something?
You think you bad enough or something?
What you tryna to do?
You don't like us or something?
Come on, what you say, brother?
Say something there? (It ain't nothin' there)
It ain't nothin'? Ha ha!
Ain't nothin', I didn't realise, ha ha
Can I go to the bridge? (Go to the bridge!)
Go to the bridge? (Yeah!)
Hit me now
Come on
Stay on the scene like a lovin' machine
Stay on the scene like a lovin' machine
Stay on the scene like a lovin' machine
Stay on the scene like a lovin' machine
Stay on the scene like a lovin' machine
The way I like it is the way it is
I've got mine, is it alright if I tell them Frank?
Is it alright if I tell them, brother?
You sure is cool on there tonight, brother
Doing your thangs and everything
I ought to borrow a few dollars from you
Can I get a few?
Can I get a few, brother?
See, he's gonna put the thing on me, brother
Don't put it, we travel together
Can I stay on the scene? (Yeah!)
Stay on the scene like a lovin' machine
Is it alright if I hit it and quit it? (Yeah!)
Do you think we should hit it and quit it? (Yeah!)
In other words, we hit it and we're done (Yeah!)
Hit it if you're done (Yeah!)
Hit me now!
Written by: Bobby Byrd, James Brown, R.Lenhoff