Hi everybody   I'm Archie Bell of the Drells   From Houston, Texas   We don't only sing but we dance   Just as good as we walk      In Houston we just started a new dance   Called the Tighten Up   This is the music   We tighten up with      First tighten up on the drums   Come on now, drummer   I want you to tighten it up for me now   Oh yeah      Tighten up on that bass now   Tighten it up, ha, ha, yeah   Now let that guitar fall in, oh yeah   Tighten up on that organ now      Yeah, you do the tighten up, yeah, now   I said, if you can do it now   It sure would be tough   Now look here, come on now   Now make it mellow      Let's tighten it up now   Do the tighten up   Everybody can do it now   So get to it      We're gonna tighten up   Let's do the tighten up   You can do it now   So baby, get to it      Look to your left now   Look to your right   Everybody can do it   But don't you get too tight      Come on and tighten up   Let's tighten it up now   Let's tighten it up now   Tighten it up      Do the tighten up   Come and tighten it up   Tighten it up now      Come on now, Billy   Tighten it up, oh yeah   Sock it to me now   Tighten it up      Come on and tighten up that bass   Oh yeah, now look here   I want that guitar to fall in on there   Tighten it up now, oh yeah   Now tighten it up, organ, yeah   Now everybody tighten it up now      Now look here   We gonna make it mellow for you now   We gonna make it mellow now      Tighten it up, you can get it   Move to your left, move to your right   Tighten it up now   Everything will be outta sight      Come on and tighten it up   Tighten it up now   You can do it